Optical Flow-Based Vehicle Detection and Tracking

OPTICAL FLOW-BASED VEHICLE DETECTION AND TRACKING By Ong Hen Ching

A REPORT SUBMITTED TO University Tunku Abdul Rahman in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HONS) INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (Perak Campus) May 2010

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FLOW-BASED

VEHICLE

DETECTION AND TRACKING” is my own work except as cited in the references. The report has not been accepted for any degree and is not being submitted concurrently in candidature for any degree or other award.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to give my special thanks to my supervisor, Mr. Tou Jing Yi for guide and support me throughout my research on FYP. He has provided me a chance to engage in computer vision field, which is a very interesting IT field that yet to be discovered. Without his guidance and support, I would not be able to deliver this project. I really appreciate his guidance and support. Thanks. I would also like to thanks Mr. Ho Wing Teng for provided me very valuable comment and suggestion for my project. He has reviewed my project and suggested some solution that I have tried to seek for a long time. I also appreciate the data and information that he given to me, which is the video files that used in this research project. With his test video files, I managed to discover more fact about my project. A very sincere thank for my friend, Alvin Yeo Zong Yun for commented on my works. He is also enrolled in project that is related to computer vision field, and always willing to share his knowledge with me, and helped my project a lot. He has also been a good partner in my university life. Million thanks for him. A special thanks to my friend, Mr. Wang Hsin Jo for sharing