Vehicle Classification Based on the Radar Measurement of Height Profiles

Ildar Urazghildiiev, Rolf Ragnarsson, Pierre Ridderstrom, Anders Rydberg, Eric Ojefors, Kjell Wallin, Per Enochsson, Magnus Ericson, Gran Lofqvist
2007 IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print)  
The problem of classifying road vehicles according to vehicle type is considered. The proposed solution is based on using vehicle height and length and height profiles obtained by a microwave (MW) radar sensor. We show that if the radar sensor satisfies certain requirements, then a precise feature vector can be extracted, and simple deterministic algorithms can be applied to determine the vehicle class. Field trials using a spread-spectrum MW radar sensor system operating on these principles
more » ... e been carried out. They confirm that accurate classification of a large number of vehicle classes can be reached. ). R. Ragnarsson and P. Ridderström are with the Sensys Traffic AB, he is currently a Mathematician-Programmer. His research interests include signal processing and signal detection, parameter estimation, classification, localization, and tracking with applications to radar and bioacoustics.
doi:10.1109/tits.2006.890071 fatcat:77itgvpcgjbw3bdjqx2adc7tla