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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K55189/01
Title:	AUTOMATIC VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION USING VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING
Principal Investigator:	Bell, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Rourke, Dr A
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Department:	Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Organisation:	Newcastle University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 1995	Ends:	30 September 1998	Value (£):	130,650
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Image & Vision Computing
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The limitations of current vehicle classification equipment restricts its use of sites where recurrent congestion does not occur and where god lane disciplines prevails. These conditions are becoming increasingly uncommon at important sites, both on the motorway network and in urban areas. The research proposed is thus concerned with the development of a generic vehicle classification system based on the recognition of vehicle features using image processing techniques. This technology has the potential to resolve, as seperate entities, two very closely adjacent vehicles, moving without lane disciplines, facilitating a vehicle classification system which may be developed at any site where a traffic engineer is interested in determining automatically the types of vehicles using the road space.
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