Hierarchical and Networked Vehicle Surveillance in ITS: A Survey
Abstract: Traffic surveillance has become an important topic in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), which is aimed at monitoring and managing traffic flow. With the progress in computer vision, video video-based based surveillance systems have made great advances on traffic surveillance in ITSs. However, the performance of most existing surveillance systems is susceptible tto o challenging complex traffic scenes (e.g., object occlusion, pose variation, and cluttered background). Moreover, existing related research is mainly on a single video sensor node, which is incapable of addressing the surveillance of traffic road networks networks.. Accordingly, we present a review of the literature on the video video-based based vehicle surveillance systems in ITSs. We analyze the existing challenges in video video-based based surveillance systems for the vehicle and present a general architecture for video surveillance systems, s i.e., the hierarchical and networked vehicle surveillance, to survey the different existing and potential techniques. Then, different methods are reviewed and discussed with respect to each module. Applications and future developments are discussed to provide future needs of ITS services.