Traffic Flow Video Image Recognition and Analysis Based on Multi-Target Tracking Algorithm and Deep Learning

Traffic flow parameters are an important data support for the research and development of several technologies in the intelligent transportation system. Therefore, accurate and real-time estimation of traffic flow is particularly important for urban traffic. In this study, a real-time traffic flow detection system framework was constructed based on video image collection and analysis. According to the vehicle detection and tracking results, a traffic flow parameter estimation model and an improved LSTM network are proposed for spatiotemporal counting feature recognition. The results conclude that the developed framework can estimate the traffic flow density and count vehicles, as well as estimate the traffic flow velocity and traffic volume to estimate and optimize traffic flow, respectively. Additionally, the simulation results show that the proposed method can not only counts the two-way traffic vehicles quickly and accurately, but also avoids the use of the complex multi-target tracking method to spatiotemporal correlation of a single target, increases the speed and accuracy of the spatiotemporal information processing procedure, and has stronger scene adaptability.