Day 3: Honours Mini-Thesis Topic: car counting system
Honours Mini-Thesis Topic: car counting system
Design an implement a “car counting system” that uses videos of highway traffic as input and extracts the number of cars passing the camera per hour.
Topics: image processing, object detection.
Programming: 30%
Research: 70%
System can be extended (by other students or as a separate honours thesis) to handle tracking of vehicles through a network of roads and statistics extraction (such as speed, number of occupants, time taken, damage(?) to vehicle), by maybe having multiple roadside ’stations’ at which the car counting system is installed.
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The above idea came to me whilst listening to Redi Direko on Cape Talk. She was talking about a gruesome murder that happened on a national highway in Gauteng province. I started thinking about road traffic analysis tools/software packages. There will be another article about crime in South Africa, as soon as I find some time.
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