Augmented reality surveillance system for road traffic monitoring

Abstract

This paper introduces the augmented reality surveillance system which evaluates the density of the traffic on roads and displays information in an easy to understand form over the video stream and a map. A mutual dependence between the real world, global coordinates and the position of the pixel in the image is explained. The way to find the real size of an object by knowing its dimension in the image is introduced. An operator can decide what points on the map it is required to survey, and the camera will know how to rotate to those points by mapping of global coordinates to pan and tilt angles. The density of the traffic is evaluated by processing video data and applying the knowledge about real width and length of cars. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.