Estimation of the Number of Vehicles by Regression Based on Parts Detection

Abstract

This paper proposes a method to count vehicles from an in-vehicle camera image by regression based on car parts detection. In the case of an in-vehicle camera image, since vehicles are frequently occluded by other vehicles in traffic congestion, it is difficult to accurately count vehicles. Therefore, we propose a method to count vehicles by regression based on the number of visible car parts. For this, we make an estimator by learning the relation between the number of visible car parts and that of vehicles by Support Vector Regression. We evaluated our method using in-vehicle camera images recorded in an actual environment, where the proposed method performed better than counting detected vehicles.