A NovelMorphological EdgeDetection andWindow BasedApproach forReal-Time RoadTraffic Control andManagement

Different typesofroadtraffic parameters are required formodernroadtraffic control andmanagement operations. Imageprocessing basedsystems havebeenusedto forcollecting andanalysing roadtraffic data. However, these techniques havenotyielded goodresults duetovarious problems suchasinefficiency ofbackground updating andselecting a threshold value, change inambient lighting etc., whichresulted infalse detection ofvehicles. Inthispaperwedescribe novel morphological edgedetection and windowbasedimage processing technique forroadtraffic applications. Thisnovel method has been implemented on a Pentium-based microcomputer systemandtheresults arereported online in real-time. We alsohavecomparedoursystemwithother traditional imageprocessing basedsystems andtheresults indicate thatourproposed system provides better results than thetraditional imageprocessing basedsystems. Keywords-Image Processing, Morphological EdgeDetection, Transportation, Real-Time