Affinity Propagation Feature Clustering with Application to Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Road Traffic Surveillance

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of the newlyproposed data clustering method, affinity propagation, infeature points clustering and the task of vehicle detectionand tracking in road traffic surveillance. We propose amodel-based temporal association scheme and novel preprocessingand postprocessing operations which togetherwith affinity propagation make a quite successful method forthe given task. Our experiments demonstrate the effectivenessand efficiency of our method and its superiority overthe state-of-the-art algorithm.