INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM AND CAR PALTE NUMBERING LOGGING AT CHECKPOINTS.

[hookes2]

INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM

     I am designing a model and a simulation. It will be a four way traffic system and there will be cameras at every point where there is a traffic light, there will be cameras. The camera will acquire images of vehicles in traffic and also scan lanes to see where there are vehicles and where there are no vehicles. so the decision of the traffic light will be based on what it is actually seeing unlike the conventional one where decision is based on some kind of 'timing'.

CAR PLATE NUMBERING LOGGING AT CHECKPOINTS

     In my school, the security men at the gate usually take and record the license plate number of vehicles and record them in a data book manually. This is usually stressful as there are many vehicles coming into the school. So I decided that we can develop something that scans the license plate number, processes it, and logs it into a file on a computer.

I really don't have a prior knowledge of image processing and I have not embarked on a project like this before. What I need right now are circuit diagrams and how this can be implemented on LabVIEW and also how the images can be acquired from the camera and using the camera to determine the decision of the Traffic Lights. Thanks in anticipation.

[Taki1999]

Both projects sound pretty interesting and both are fairly difficult.

Before you jump into block diagrams, I'd recommend taking a few pictures with a digital camera at the resolution and field of view that you expect to use.

Take those images and run them through the Vision Assistant.  After you've tweaked your car recognition and OCR algorithms in Vision Assistant, porting that into a control system with LabVIEW is relatively straightforward.

Once you have sample images, it will also be a lot easier for the image processing folks here to help out in picking algorithms for your application.

[hookes2]

Thanks so much sir/ma for the response, of this I am highly grateful. I am yet to purchase the cameras but that I will do as soon as I am able to place an order. I have no prior knowledge of vision assistant but I think I will take a look at it. I don't know if this forum supports private messages if it is allowed I would love to have your email address sir/ma and contact you personally. My email address is hookes2@yahoo.com. Thanks.