Title
Automatic Vehicle Model Recognition and Lateral Position Estimation Based on Magnetic Sensors
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach for automatic vehicle model recognition and simultaneous estimation of lateral transit position, based on magnetic sensor technology. A set of magnetic sensors is deployed on the road surface and, upon transit of a target vehicle on the equipment, the system records six magnetic signatures relative to different vehicle sections. The recorded signatures are then compared with the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm to previously recorded ones, which are relative to known vehicles that have transited at known lateral position; the system then assesses whether the target vehicle's model matches one of the models already in the database, and estimates its lateral transit position. With the considered experimental set-up, the system is able to discriminate between many different vehicle models and six lateral positions, with a resolution of about 20 cm: the performance of the system is presented by comparing a set of different classifiers. In terms of vehicle model recognition, 1-Nearest Neighbor classifier obtains 0% of misclassification rate, while for lateral position estimation, if an error of one position is tolerated (precision of ± 20 cm), the system is shown to reach 2.4% of misclassification rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TITS.2020.2974808
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Intelligent transportation systems,automatic vehicle model recognition,magnetic signature,dynamic time warping,classification
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1524-9050
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessandro Amodio101.69
Michele Ermidoro201.69
Sergio M. Savaresi3943142.05
Fabio Previdi4610.62