Support Vector Machine Applied to Road Traffic Event Classification

The aim of this paper is to present results of road traffic event signal recognition. First, several types of systems for road traffic monitoring, including Intelligent Transport System (ITS) are shortly described. Then, assumptions of creating a database of vehicle signals recorded in different weather and road conditions are outlined. Registered signals were edited as single vehicle pass by. Using the Matlab-based application a feature vector containing 48 parameters was extracted and analyzed in the context of parameter separability and classification effectiveness employing SVM (Support Vector Machine) algorithm. In conclusion, the classifier developed and its effectiveness were discussed.