Joint Acoustic-Video Fingerprinting of Vehicles, Part I

TitleJoint Acoustic-Video Fingerprinting of Vehicles, Part I
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsCevher V, Chellappa R, McClellan JH
Conference NameAcoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Date Published2007/04//
Keywordsacoustic, acoustic-video, components;joint, detection;acoustic, estimation;video, fingerprinting;passive, processing;, processing;acoustic, sensor;vehicle, sensors;acoustic, sensors;wheel, SHAPE, signal, speed, transducers;video, wave-pattern;envelope
Abstract

We address vehicle classification and measurement problems using acoustic and video sensors. In this paper, we show how to estimate a vehicle's speed, width, and length by jointly estimating its acoustic wave-pattern using a single passive sensor that records the vehicle's drive-by noise. The acoustic wave-pattern is approximated using three envelope shape (ES) components, which approximate the shape of the received signal's power envelope. We incorporate the parameters of the ES components along with the estimates of the vehicle engine RPM and number of cylinders to create a vehicle profile vector that forms an intuitive discriminatory feature space. In the companion paper, we discuss vehicle classification and mensuration based on silhouette extraction and wheel detection, using a video sensor. Vehicle speed estimation and classification results are provided using field data.

DOI10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366343