On-board robust vehicle detection and tracking using adaptive quality evaluation

This paper presents a robust method for real-time vehicle detection and tracking in dynamic traffic environments. The proposed strategy aims to find a trade-off between the robustness shown by time-uncorrelated detection techniques and the speed-up obtained with tracking algorithms. It combines both advantages by continuously evaluating the quality of the tracking results along time and triggering new detections to restart the tracking process when quality falls behind a certain quality requirement. Robustness is also ensured within the tracking algorithm with an outlier rejection stage and the use of stochastic filtering. Several sequences from real traffic situations have been tested, obtaining highly accurate multiple vehicle detections.

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