Vicats

There is a Europe Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods By Road (ADR) that imposes certain rules to trucks carrying dangerous goods. Such a truck can be easily recognized by one or more orange ADR plates indicating what substance it is carrying. For a tunnel operator it is very relevant to be able to detect when such a truck enters the tunnel. Moreover when the truck is inside the tunnel it is also very interesting to know where exactly the truck is located.

This is the main business case of the current IBBT project namely detecting trucks carrying dangerous goods entering the tunnel and tracking them throughout the tunnel by the means of video cameras. The problem can therefore be split up into 2 main problems namely the detection and identification of vehicles carrying dangerous goods at the entrance of tunnels on the one hand and the subsequent tracking of the vehicles throughout the tunnel on the other hand. From a research point of view the core challenge consists in the correct detection and tracking of a certain vehicle in a camera image and over the different cameras.