• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.11-20
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• 2014

Due to the importance of vehicle detector which plays an essential role in generating real-life traffic information, maintaining detector data quality is preeminent in advanced traffic management and information systems (ATMIS). To this end, agencies periodically conduct performance tests on detectors. Detector evaluation is generally performed by comparing baseline data with corresponding detector data. Here, two important things need to be addressed; one is errors (or uncertainties) included in baseline data and the other is the confidence interval concept to represent evaluation results of sample data to corresponding ones of population. To resolve these problems, a new detector evaluation scheme is introduced and the scheme is applied to individual level detector evaluations of loop, video image, and radar detectors. The purpose of individual level evaluation is to eliminate the balancing (or cancelling-out) effects of over- and under-counts. As a consequence, the proposed scheme is proven to be effectively applied to real-world detector evaluations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.119-128
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• 2021

The most typical method to generate traffic information is installing vehicle detectors and collecting various traffic variables. The information collection accuracy of a vehicle detector affects the reliability of the generated traffic information. The most universal vehicle detector is an image detector. This study installed a magnetic detector in the same position as an image detector and evaluated the accuracy of traffic volume and speed data depending on a variety of environment. Based on the evaluation, more errors occurred as the image detector was placed farther from the camera, whereas more errors were found to occur during the night rather than the day. Although rainfall did not affect the collection of traffic volume, it negatively affected speed data collection. Therefore, an analysis of the camera's view angle and its optimization depending on the camera installation position and height are required to enhance the currently operated image detector performance. It is judged that a separate performance evaluation criterion should be prepared in a bad weather environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.423-425
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• 1998

영상검지기를 이용하여 도로상에서 이동중인 차량의 움직임을 탐지하고 분석하는 방법은 지능형교통시스템의 많은 분야에 적용되어질 수 있다. 영상분석으로 움직이는 물체를 탐지하는 방법에는 영상차를 이용하는 방법과 영상차를 이용하지 않는 방법으로 분류할 수 있다. 영상차를 이용하는 방법에서는 영상간의 차영상을 기반으로 하여 물체를 탐지하는 방법은 일반적이고 보편적인 방법이나 시간에 따른 배경영상의 왜곡과 물체의 정체현상에 많은 문제점을 지니고 있다. 그리고 영상차를 이용하지 않는 방법은 영상내의 분석으로 물체를 탐지하는 방법이고, 영상간의 정보를 사용하지 않으므로 영상차에 의한 문제점은 발생되지 않는다. 기존에 연구되어진 영상차를 이용하지 않는 방법은 물체의 형태를 고려하지 않고 단지 이동점의 좌표분석으로 차량의 움직임을 측정하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상차를 이용하지 않으며 영상내의 형태정보 분석과 색상정보를 고려하여 기존의 영상검지기가 지니는 문제점을 개선하여 정밀한 차량 추적에 대한 가능성을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.231-244
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• 2002

현재 다양한 교통정보 서비스와 소통수준 제고를 목표로 국내 여러 도시에서 진행중인 첨단교통관리체계(ATMS)사업이 운영 또는 구축중에 있으며 도로상의 교통정보를 보다 정확히 수집하기 위해 다양한 종류의 차량검지시스템이 도입되고 있으나 기존 국내외 사례를 볼 때 제반 검지기의 성능평가 방안이 사업별로 상이한 기준으로 진행되었으며 객관적인 성능수준을 제시하지는 못하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 검지시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위한 과정을 최근의 서울시 내부순환로 교통관리시스템의 사례를 토대로 고찰한 결과 시공단계에서 지속적인 튜닝과 성능제고방안을 추진한다면 상당한 수준의 정확도 확보를 기대할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 제시된 평가방안은 향후 보완을 거쳐 타 시스템에 있어 초기설치시 또는 유지관리시 성능의 척도로써 목표를 선정하고 활용하는 데 있어 하나의 대안으로 제시할 수 있을 것이다. 이에 제반 ATMS관련 연구기관에서는 시스템의 성능과 정확성을 좌우한다 해도 과언이 아닌 차량 검지기에 대한 성능평가 기준의 표준화 방안에 대한 연구를 진행하여, 검지기 성능제고를 위한 객관적인 기준목표와 각 검지기변 평가기준의 표준화 방안을 제시한다면 통행시간, 속도 등 제공정보의 신뢰성을 상당수준 향상시킴과 동시에 사업시행에 따른 시행착오를 최소화할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.5 s.83
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• pp.105-112
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• 2005

This paper not only tests VIDS(Video Image Detection System) performance by vehicle speed group but also suggests optimal VIDS height considering road and cost condition. The VIDS spreads over freeway and national highway and plays an important role in ITS(Intelligent Transportation Systems). As a result, speed data accuracy drops form 50kph vehicle speed and volume and occupancy data accuracy drop from 30kph. Lowest speed data accuracy is only 88%, but volume and occupancy accuracy are 75% and 77% respectively. The reason VIDS data accuracy drop by vehicle speed is gap distance decrease between vehicles. Therefore, this paper suggests $17m{\sim}21m$ for optimal VIDS height considering road and cost condition.

• ICROS
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.50-62
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• 1996

이 글에서는 본 실험실에서 개발한, 교통정보 추출을 위한 차량검지 알고리즘과 차량 추적 알고리즘, 모델에 기반한 차량의 인식과 추적을 위한 알고리즘, 지능형 차량을 위한 선행차량 인식과 차선 인식을 위한 영상 알고리즘에 대하여 살펴 보았고, 이들 알고리즘을 직접 도로영상에 적용하여 그 가능성을 살펴보았다. 교통 정보 추출용 차량 검지 알고리즘은 실험실에서 구성한 영상 검지기 시스템에 실제 적용되어 실시간으로 작동하고 있다. 그렇지만, 아직까지는 대부분의 알고리즘이 실시간 구현과 시스템 적용성에서 미흡한 상태이다. 따라서, 본 실험실에서는 이미 개발된 영상 알고리즘의 신뢰성 제고와 실시간 처리를 위해 알고리즘 자체의 성능 향상 뿐만 아니라 이를 수행하는 하드웨어에 대한 연구도 병행하고 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.543-552
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• 2008

ATIS(Advanced Traveler Information System) is the system to offer a real-time traffic information or traffic situation for the benefit of the client. One of traffic information collection methods for ATIS research is the method of image analysis. The method is divided into two : one is the method to set two loop detectors at the area and the other is the method detecting the vehicle through an image analysis. In this paper, we propose a real-time traffic information collection system to mix two methods. The system installs multiple virtual detection lines and traces the location of the vehicle. Use of multiple virtual detection lines supplements the defect of the method of loop detectors. And we drew a representative pixels in the detecting area and used it for image analysis. This is to solve the problem of time delay which increases as the image size increases. We gathered traffic images and experimented using the system and got 92.32% of detection accuracy.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.5 s.83
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• pp.177-185
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• 2005

The accuracy of a video image detector(VID) is gradually reduced due to the various environmental and mechanical factors. But there has been no systematic research about this VID accuracy decreasing. To maintain a proper level of VID accuracy for the advanced traffic management. a regular VID calibration process needs to be introduced. Because of its cost, however. the calibration cannot be performed frequently. Therefore, the method to decide the optimal calibration interval should be studied in details. This study presents two different calibration interval decision methods. Using the invented data collection equipment. some data in the field were collected and analyzed. which were used for the adaptability checking. Although the data were limited. the result is pretty promising. More data needs to be investigated later and this study will help to maintain the data quality of the ITS center.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3D
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• pp.353-359
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• 2006

Image frame analysis is a conventional way of evaluating loop detector's performance. In image frame analysis, the time to evaluate performance is linearly proportional to the number of evaluated subjects, and the results can be subjective, depending on operator's personal evaluation standards and physical condition. Also, this method is often inferior in accuracy to that provided by the evaluated devices. Therefore, it is critical to develop a portable standard system which has better accuracy and more objectivity in evaluating vehicle detectors. This paper discusses function and reliability of tape-switch detector, which can be a replacement for image frame analysis, for effectively measuring traffic volume, speed, and occupancy.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.111-120
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• 2018

This study focuses on utilizing drones for performance evaluation of ITS detectors and analyzing economic feasibility when performance evaluation is conducted by the traffic management center's own personnel using drones. The study sites were selected from DSRC, video detector, and radar detector locations and drone filming was conducted to obtain travel speed, queue length, and delay time and compare with the detector data. It was shown that drones can be very effectively used to evaluate performance of major ITS detectors such as DSRC and video detectors. In addition, it was analyzed that a drone operated by the traffic management center's own personnel provides very economic solution for ITS detector performance evaluation when compared to consignment by external agencies.