Abstract

This research presents an approach for safety diagnosis using sensor fusion techniques. This work fuses the outputs of a roadside low-resolution camera and a solid-state LiDAR. For vehicle classification and detection in videos, the YOLO v5 object detection model was utilized. The raw 3D point clouds generated by the LiDAR are processed by two manual steps - ground plane transformation and background segmentation, and two real-time steps - foreground clustering, and bounding box fitting. Taking the generated 2D bounding boxes of both camera and LiDAR, we associate the common bounding box pairs by thresholding on the Euclidean distance threshold of 6 ft between the centroid pairs. We perform weighted measurement update based on the RMSE of each of the sensor's detection compared to manually labeled ground truths. The fused measurements are tracked by using linear constant velocity Kalman Filter. With the generated trajectories, we compute post encroachment time (PET) at pixel level conflicts based on the generated vehicle trajectories. We have proposed a complete bipartite graph matching strategy of vehicle parts along with the conflict angle to obtain conflict types - rear-end, sideswipe, head-on, and angle conflict. A case study on a signalized intersection is presented. The output of the proposed framework performs significantly better than the single sensor-based systems in terms of the number of detections and localization. It is expected that the proposed method can be employed to diagnose road safety problems and inform the required countermeasures.

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Graduation Date

2022

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Abdel-Aty, Mohamed

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Department

Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering

Degree Program

Civil Engineering; Smart Cities

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0008943; DP0026276

URL

https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0026276

Language

English

Release Date

May 2022

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

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