VECTOR: Trajectory Analysis for Advanced Highway Monitoring

In a world that is increasingly reliant on automobiles, efficient management of the transportation network is a key functionality of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). A wide range of these ITS applications rely on the extraction of current data as well as historical information in order to perform appropriately. This work presents a novel computer vision based approach for traffic management. The VECTOR system processes live video traffic streams to track individual vehicles, classify vehicle type, and accumulate essential highway management measurements. This system provides a front end collection tool that can be used for a wide variety of other transportation tasks including congestion analysis, speed compliance and flow analysis, as well as trajectory pattern analysis. The system provides real-time situational awareness to highway monitoring and presents a trajectory analysis framework that can be extended into vehicle based monitoring.