Intelligent traffic light system using digital image processing

Abstract

Traffic is one of the major concern for almost every country in the world nowadays. As the urban area traffic congestion increases, its control has become a huge problem. The existing way to control traffic signals is by using a timer or manually or simply using electronic sensors to detect vehicles, so there is a vital need for the introduction of advanced traffic control algorithms to deal with this ever increasing problem. We will be making a system to control traffic lights using digital image processing techniques. It will use images to compute the density of vehicles. We will have cameras mounted on the traffic lights that will produce a sequence of images which will then be analyzed for vehicle detection using different digital image processing techniques. Then according to the conditions of traffic on the road the traffic lights will be controlled.