Presentation 2016-01-29
Design and initial evaluation of vehicle counting system using road-side microphone array
Kohei Mimura, Song Liu, Shigemi Ishida, Shigeaki Tagashira, Akira Fukuda,
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Abstract(in English) We present a vehicle counting system using a road-side microphone array. Our system uses two microphones on one side of the road to count vehicles coming from two directions, which drastically reduces the installation cost. Based on a previous work, we generate a “sound map”, which is time-difference map of vehicle sound on the two microphones. Prior to count vehicles, we apply a simple image processing technique on the sound map to minimize the effect of noise. We describe the design and implementation of our vehicle counting system. Experimental evaluation reveals that our system successfully counted vehicles with an F-measure of 0.92.
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Keyword(in English) soundmap / microphone / vehicle count / traffic counter
Paper # ASN2015-98
Date of Issue 2016-01-21 (ASN)

Conference Information
Committee MICT / ASN / MoNA
Conference Date 2016/1/28(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Hotel Okada
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Ambient intelligence, ICT for Medical, Healthcare and Sports, etc
Chair Ryuji Kohno(Yokohama National Univ.) / Hiroshi Tohjo(NTT) / Hiroaki Morino(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Masaru Sugimachi(National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center) / Takahiro Aoyagi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroo Sekiya(Chiba Univ.) / Hiraku Okada(Nagoya Univ.) / Kiyohito Yoshihara(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Ryoichi Shinkuma(Kyoto Univ.)
Secretary Masaru Sugimachi(NICT) / Takahiro Aoyagi(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroo Sekiya(Kanagawa Inst. of Tech.) / Hiraku Okada(NTT) / Kiyohito Yoshihara(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Ryoichi Shinkuma(Kumamoto Univ.)
Assistant Kohei Ohno(Meiji Univ.) / Keisuke Shima(Yokohama National Univ.) / Tomoko Tateyama(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Yuichi Igarashi(Hitachi) / Katsuhiro Naito(Aichi Inst. of Tech.) / Kiyohiko Hattori(NICT) / Hiroshi Fujita(Fujitsu Labs.) / Takuro Yonezawa(Keio Univ.) / Yoshifumi Morihiro(NTT DoCoMo) / Hisashi Kurasawa(NTT) / Makoto Suzuki(Univ. of Tokyo)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Information Communication Technology / Technical Committee on Ambient intelligence and Sensor Networks / Technical Committee on Mobile Network and Applications
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Design and initial evaluation of vehicle counting system using road-side microphone array
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) soundmap
Keyword(2) microphone
Keyword(3) vehicle count
Keyword(4) traffic counter
1st Author's Name Kohei Mimura
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Song Liu
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Shigemi Ishida
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
4th Author's Name Shigeaki Tagashira
4th Author's Affiliation Kansai University(Kansai Univ.)
5th Author's Name Akira Fukuda
5th Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
Date 2016-01-29
Paper # ASN2015-98
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) ASN-437
Page pp.pp.111-116(ASN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-01-21 (ASN)