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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2016.53.7.078

A Vehicle Speed Measurement System Implementation using a Stereo Camera and a License Plate Recognition Algorithm  

Kim, Young-Mo (School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Rheu, Jee-Hyung (School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Choi, Doo-Hyun (School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.53, no.7, 2016 , pp. 78-84 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents and implements a vehicle speed measurement system using a license plate recognition system and a stereo camera. Using the feature points of the license plate recognition system, the disparity information is extracted and then the distance to the feature points is calculated by using the disparity information. In this paper, a vehicle speed is measured using the adjacent distances from consecutive stereo images and the corresponding time of the distances. Actual vehicle speed is also measured using the reference measurement equipment (tape switch based system) in order to test the accuracy of the proposed speed measurement system. The implemented stereo based speed measurement system shows appropriate result within specification both in the daytime and nighttime experiments.
Keywords
Stereo camera; Vehicle speed measurement; License plate recognition; Tape switch;
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