PredictV: A Vehicle Prediction Scheme to Circumvent Occluded Frames

Abstract

There are many methods to overcome traffic congestion on the roads, but occlusion is still there in most methods, so it is a dire need of the time that researchers have to look into this matter. In the rural and urban areas, heavy congestion on the roads has become the leading cause of occlusion. The PredictV method works on the prediction principle based on existing values and is proved one of the naval approaches for this problem. This scheme uses blob detection for the first frame detection and predicts other vehicles based on percentage increment in the different parameters to identify the vehicles. For improving the quality of the sample, data cleaning has been included in this work. With the help of this approach, congestion has been avoided, and this method prefers to use predicted points to detect vehicles on the frame. The suggested approach is implemented via a MATLAB simulator. It is tested on a large dataset containing 7152 frames of 6 different videos from the Urban Tracker and KoPer datasets. In total, there are 46876 vehicles present on the frame at first, and the existing methods have detected only 58% and 73% of vehicles, whereas the detection rate is 82% with this suggested approach. The occlusion rate is only 17% on average, which has been reduced via this proposed approach which was 24% and 43% earlier than the existing one. The performance of this suggested method has been tested based on performance and results, which are pretty impressive that is almost 99.74%. In short, the outcome of this prediction technique has been improved now, and the effectiveness has been observed too.