Title
An Automated Tachograph Chart Analysis System
Abstract
This paper describes a new system that analyses tachograph charts. These circular charts are legal records of information on the different types of driver activity (driving, other duty, standby and rest) and vehicle data (speed and distance travelled). As each driver of each passenger and goods vehicle over a certain capacity must use a chart for every 24-hour period, there is a significant need for automated analysis (currently, tachograph charts are analysed manually).The system starts by determining the shape parameters of the chart (location of the centre and radius). The position of the start of the 24-hour period (radius from centre to 24 hour tick mark) is then estimated. Finally the driver activity trace (recorded in a circular manner) is extracted, converted into a linear representation and recognised. Results from the evaluation of the system against professionally prepared ground truth indicate at least 94% accuracy in reading the driving time even on difficult (with scratches and marks) charts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/3-540-45869-7_57
Document Analysis Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
automated tachograph chart analysis,circular manner,analyses tachograph chart,driver activity trace,driver activity,24-hour period,goods vehicle,driving time,circular chart,new system,tachograph chart,ground truth,shape parameter
Simulation,Computer science,Linear representation,Real-time computing,Ground truth,Chart,Tachograph
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2423
0302-9743
3-540-44068-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Apostolos Antonacopoulos137836.45
David P. Kennedy200.34