[Project] Smart Cities: Vehicle Speed Measurement

November 2016 - December 2018

Target End-User: Municipalities, Traffic Law Enforcement, & Urban Planning Authorities

Affiliation: M.Sc. Thesis Project (University of Guilan), Rasht, Iran

Project Ecosystem: GitHub | Paper#1 | Paper#2 | Demo Video

  • Automated Velocity Estimation: utilizes advanced video stream analytics to track passing vehicles dynamically and calculate their real-time traveling speeds.
  • Intelligent Violation Logging: programmed to instantly flag vehicles exceeding predefined local speed limits, capturing and storing data for regulatory compliance.
  • Enterprise Municipal Scalability: engineered with a modular framework for integration into existing city wide traffic camera networks.
  • Commercial Grounding & Peer Review: transitioned from an academic Master's thesis into a commercially viable business incubation proposal at GSTP.
  • 💡 Stack: C#, OpenCV, EmguCV, AForge.NET, SQL Server
🏆 Patent titled "Motion-based Vehicle Speeding Violation Detection System," Patent No. 102641, Issued by Patent Office Iran (2020).
A. Tourani, A. Shahbahrami, A. Akoushideh, S. Khazaee, and C.Y. Suen, "Motion-based Vehicle Speed Measurement for Intelligent Transportation Systems," International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 42-54, 2019, DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2019.04.04.
A. Joe Afshany, A. Tourani, A. Shahbahrami, S. Khazaee, and A. Akoushideh, "Parallel Implementation of a Video-based Vehicle Speed Measurement System for Municipal Roadways," International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 25-37, 2019, DOI: 10.5815/ijisa.2019.11.03.