An algorithm to estimate vehicle speed using uncalibrated cameras

We present an algorithm to estimate speed using a sequence of video images from an uncalibrated camera. The algorithm uses frame differencing to isolate moving edges and track vehicles between frames. The algorithm uses a known vehicle length distribution with image information to estimate speed.

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