Traffic violation detection and penalty generation system at a street intersection

Abstract

The world is rapidly urbanizing. This has resulted in a manifold increase in the number of vehicles plying on city roads. Random lane changing and red signal violation has become a major cause of traffic jams and accidents at street intersections. This tendency is increasing due to lack of proper penalty system. Also it is not possible to assign traffic police at each and every junction. This paper proposes an automated traffic violation detection system depending purely on video processing techniques. It evaluates red signal as well as lane change violation with the help of vehicle movement trend, approach lane, stop line, and traffic signal status without taking any signal from other systems such as traffic signal control box, inductive loop detectors, etc. On detecting the violation, system captures snapshot of violating vehicle and identifies the vehicle license plate number. As a part of penalty system, an android application is developed which provides all the details of violation on just entering the vehicle license plate number by authorized officer.