EP1542192A1 - Identifikationsverfahren und -Anlage eines sich bewegenden Fahrzeuges - Google Patents

Identifikationsverfahren und -Anlage eines sich bewegenden Fahrzeuges Download PDF

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EP1542192A1
EP1542192A1 EP04292920A EP04292920A EP1542192A1 EP 1542192 A1 EP1542192 A1 EP 1542192A1 EP 04292920 A EP04292920 A EP 04292920A EP 04292920 A EP04292920 A EP 04292920A EP 1542192 A1 EP1542192 A1 EP 1542192A1
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Francois Dufresne De Virel
Georges Lavoipierre
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    • G08G1/054—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled with provision for determining speed or overspeed photographing overspeeding vehicles
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  • the present invention relates to the field of identifying a vehicle traveling on a road, or the like.
  • This identification is notably implemented in the field of control of traffic conditions, and mainly the speed of motor vehicles.
  • the identification of a vehicle usually includes at least identification of the vehicle registration number. Depending on the type of carried out, it may also include a number of elements additional information relating to the identification of specific features of that vehicle or to its occupants, generally relating to offenses committed by the driver or passengers, eg speeding, lack of safety belt, use of a mobile phone by the driver etc.
  • Offenses can be detected using devices such as a radar, a laser or a pair of pneumatic detectors in the case of speed control or interdistance.
  • a camera is triggered after detection of the offense, to provide an image of the vehicle for reading the license plate and usually to see the driver's face (or another element in the passenger compartment representative of a possible infringement: a portable at the driver's ear, a seat belt not put, etc.).
  • Document FR 2 797 081 describes a method and an apparatus identification of a registered motor vehicle for identification purposes of vehicles.
  • the method described is particularly suitable for the identification of vehicles equipped with retro reflective plates.
  • two photographs are taken successively, one with a flash of powerful flash to get a good picture of the driver's face through the windshield glass, the other with a less powerful flash of flash to get a good picture of the license plate.
  • the identification of registration number is thus achieved with the help of a specific photo, a another photo allowing the identification of the driver's face.
  • This technique requires taking two shots, so means, by compared to identification made with a single image, an increase in volume of data to be processed as well as a vehicle processing capacity in a given time twice as small.
  • US 6,670,765 discloses a system adapted to capture an image of a vehicle and its license plate, taking advantage of the fact that retroreflective plates do not alter the polarization of a polarized light as they reflect. This solution makes it possible to obtain an exploitable image, however, it means that amount of light energy is emitted without being used (since it is filtered then depending on its polarization), so wasted.
  • the present invention aims at providing a method and a device identification of a vehicle traveling on a predetermined path which are able to give satisfaction in the presence of the constraints mentioned above.
  • the invention proposes a method identification of vehicles traveling on a specified trajectory and comprising a driver in a cockpit and a license plate.
  • This method uses illumination means of said vehicle comprising a image projection apparatus and a light source comprising at least first and second parts, and shooting means adapted to process light signals produced by said means of illumination and received by reflection on said vehicle, comprising at least one optical device and a sensor.
  • the method according to the invention proposes an identification technique the registration of a vehicle that can be carried out automatically, whatever the offense, and to reduce the necessary operations at identification and processing time. Indeed, it allows with a single photo and a single flash of flash to get a representation of the license plate and any predetermined cabin component located behind the windshield.
  • An identification according to the invention can be realized without the intervention of an operator to frame the photo of the plate one of the pieces of a statement of offense.
  • the invention reduces the waste of energy, since it makes it possible to project selectively the image of source parts on areas of interest respectively. It also makes it possible to adapt the illumination so as to obtain a workable image of the chosen element and the license plate.
  • the method according to the invention also makes it possible to carry out the identification vehicles with treated windshields, which in particular prevent the signal reflection in the near infrared spectral range.
  • the source is a spatially differentiated source, that is, the two source parts are non-overlapping, one of these parts emitting light signals with characteristics different from those characteristics of the signals emitted by the other party.
  • the illumination means are constituted so as to the image of the source is projected onto the projection plane.
  • the image formed is an image in the optical sense of the word, that is to say that the image obtained is a representation of the source on the projection plane, with a magnification factor.
  • this imaging process is described by the quality of the optics performed and can be evaluated, for example by the Function of Modulation transfer of this optics.
  • the practical realization of this projection is a problem optical optimization, well known to those skilled in the art).
  • illumination means are further defined so that the image of the first part of the source covers the first portion of the projection plane and the image of the second part of the source covering the second portion of that plan.
  • the projection plane is advantageously chosen as a plane median to the plane in which the chosen element extends and to the plane in which extends the plate.
  • the first portion corresponds to the chosen element of any vehicle in shooting position
  • the second portion corresponds to the plate mineralogy of any vehicle located in the aforesaid predetermined position.
  • This correspondence between the first portion and the chosen element (respectively the second portion and the license plate) means that the projection, according to the optical axis of the projection device, of the chosen element (respectively license plate) on the projection plane, is contained in the first portion (respectively the second portion).
  • the chosen item is the driver's face, it is covered by the image of the first part of the source. And the license plate is covered by the image of the second part of the source.
  • An advantage provided by the invention is that it allows a size of compact source.
  • the two source parts are spatially differentiated, their images on the projection plan will also be spatially differentiated.
  • the images, on the projection plan, of each part will be also contiguous, but not superimposed. So there will not be superposition on the license plate of light signals coming from of the second source part and light signals from the first part of source and intended to illuminate the chosen element (and vice versa).
  • the signals from the two source parts are superimposed on the path between the source and the shot plane.
  • the invention makes it possible do not have to separate, over the entire path from the source to the plane projection, the light signals from a source part, signals bright from the other source part. This would indeed have the disadvantage of require a large source, which is incompatible with a portable and unobtrusive use of a vehicle identification system (because it would then be important to separate the source parts, for example by means of reflector type so as to channel the emitted signals).
  • Another advantage of the invention is that it makes it possible to regulate differentially and equalize the apparent illumination (as seen by the device) of said selected element of the passenger compartment and that of the license plate. This adjustment can be done by the choice of characteristics of the source elements used, but also by that of their operating conditions (adjustment of the supply voltage by example).
  • the source of the illumination means comprises a first source part which emits signals in the visible spectral band (wavelengths included typically between 0.4 and 0.75 ⁇ m), and a second source part that emits signals in the near infrared band (wavelengths included between 0.75 ⁇ m and 1.5 ⁇ m)
  • the spatial separation of the source in two parts is performed, not at the source level but via the projection optics.
  • two separate optics of optical axes unaligned we can obtain the same source separation resulting in two disjoint images each corresponding to one of the two portions, level of focus plan.
  • the projection plan of the first optic will be slightly inclined relative to the projection plane of the second optics.
  • this approximation does not affect not the effect of the invention.
  • the invention proposes a system identification of vehicles traveling on a specified trajectory and comprising a driver in a cockpit and a license plate.
  • This system comprises means for implementing a method according to the first aspect of the invention.
  • the vehicle identification system may further include means for extracting from the shot made at least a fraction of a shot of view, even several representative fractions of shooting (s) relevant information relating to the break-in. Indeed, some others parts of the shot are not useful and constitute a volume of unwanted additional data. By the way, some other parts non-infringement may be withdrawn voluntarily, in particular within the framework of the respect for the private life (in particular one can withdraw from the shot fraction selected the passenger's representation).
  • the vehicle identification system may furthermore further include functionally associated transmission means to a channel of digital data transmission, and clean, in case detected infringement of a vehicle, to transmit data digital representative of the shooting carried out for said vehicle.
  • FIG. 1 is represented a view from above, that is to say in the plane (X, Y), a radar 1, comprising a radar antenna 2 installed at the edge of a road 3 and driven by a radar control unit 4.
  • the radar 1 is for example a radar adapted to perform speed checks.
  • the radar is associated with a detection field corresponding to a beam of waves emitted by the antenna 2.
  • the radar 1 is connected by a link 7 to an identification device 8 of traveling vehicles arranged according to the invention.
  • the control unit 4 of the radar 1 transmits on this link signals to a box of control 9 of the device 8.
  • the device 8 is connected by a link 19 to a pickup system digital view 10, such as a camera or video type camera.
  • This system 10 comprises an optical device 10a and a sensor 10b of the CCD type ("Charge-Coupled Device") or CMOS ("Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) or any other sensor suitable for image shooting digital in visible and near infrared spectra.
  • CCD Charge-Coupled Device
  • CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
  • the camera system 10 is in this case considered suitable for capture images from the field of view upon receipt of a command from shooting from the control box 9.
  • the taking of images is triggered upon receipt of a operator control.
  • the device 8 is connected, by a link 20, to a flash 17, comprising a light source 17a.
  • the source 17a is represented in FIG. comprises four tubes t1, t2, t3 and t4 arranged in the plane (Y, Z), one above the other in the direction Z.
  • the tubes 11, t2, t3 constitute a first part S1 of the source 17a while the tube t4 constitutes a second part S2 of the source 17a.
  • each tube has a width y (actually a length) equal to 50 mm and a height z equal to 10 mm (in reality a diameter).
  • the source part S1 therefore has a width y equal to 50 mm and a height z1 equal to 30 mm.
  • Source parts S1 and S2 are controlled jointly by the control box 9.
  • the flash 17 further comprises an optical device, projection 17b,
  • the device 8 comprises an image processing module 11 operating on images captured by the shooting system 10.
  • the device 8 furthermore comprises a memory 12 making it possible to store images.
  • the device 8 also comprises a transmission block 13, which transmits data on a digital data transmission channel 14, to a national center for the exploitation of these data.
  • the communication link 14 may be a dedicated link, by fiber optical, by wired electrical conductor (connection type modem, ADSL or Ethernet), via a radio link, or can be a public radio link GPRS or GSM type, adapted to the necessary transmission capacity and enabling a reduction in transmission and installation costs.
  • a three-dimensional zone predetermined shooting of a vehicle found in infringement and circulating on route 3 and set the parameters of adjustment of the system of shooting 10 (line of sight, zoom etc.) so that any shots obtained at from the shooting system 10 shows both the windshield and the number plate of the vehicle of a vehicle detected in the zone predetermined.
  • This predetermined three-dimensional zone V corresponds to the part of the beam emitted by the radar 2 which extends straight up the road and whose projection hovers over the route is the hatched area 5 in FIG.
  • zones Z1 and Z2 are defined on any shot Ph obtained with the camera system 10 thus set.
  • the zones Z1 and Z2 are defined so that the zone Z1, corresponding to an upper part V 1 of the aforesaid volume containing the upper part of the vehicle, contains the representation of the windshield of any standard vehicle present in the zone determined for which a shot must be made, and that Z2, corresponding to a lower part V 2 of the aforesaid volume containing the lower part of the vehicle, contains the representation of the license plate of such a standard vehicle.
  • Z1 is the top two-thirds of the shot and Z2 is the bottom third.
  • a projection plane P located in the predetermined three-dimensional zone V is defined.
  • This plane shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, is chosen so as to be arranged transversely with respect to a vehicle located in position. V.
  • the plane P is the plane (X, Z)
  • P1 which is the intersection of the plane P with the upper part V 1 of the volume which contains the windshield of any standard vehicle present in the specified area for which a shot is to be made
  • P2 is also considered, which is the intersection of the plane P with the lower part V 2 of the volume containing the license plate of the vehicle. such a standard vehicle.
  • the portions P1 and P2 are such that the portion P1 contains the geometric projection of the windshield on the plane P and P2 contains the projection geometry of the license plate on the plane P.
  • this plan is the median plane equidistant between the plane containing the plate registration and the plan passing through the driver's face.
  • the projection axis of the projection device makes an angle important with the trajectory of the vehicle, we can advantageously incline the plan of the source in relation to the axis of projection, so as to obtain a plan projection substantially perpendicular to the trajectory.
  • the optical projection device 17b and the place where we arranges it, so that the image of the source 17a is projected onto the projection plane P and that in addition the image of the first source part S1 covers the portion P1 and the image of the second source part S2 covers the portion P2.
  • the source 17a comprises the two source parts S1 and S2 represented in Figure 2
  • the diameter of the projection optics will be chosen according to the cone source parts, available space and possibilities offered by the projection optics technique chosen, so as to collect the maximum flow to project it on the plane P.
  • the image of the source 17a is formed in the projection plan P. And it is in this plane (neither upstream nor downstream) that the signals from the first source part S1 are separated from the signals from the second source part S2.
  • the projection device 17b is therefore chosen here according to the dimensions of the portions P1 and P2 of the projection plane P, and the dimensions of the source 17a (It will be noted that in another mode of implementation of the invention is the source this time will be chosen according to the portions P1, P2 and characteristics of an optical projection device predetermined).
  • the ratio between a signal of maximum intensity received by a receiving entity of the sensor and a signal of minimum intensity received by another receiving entity of the sensor is less than a value E, called the dynamic excursion factor of sensor and corresponding to the linear operating range of this sensor (ie avoiding saturation and avoiding drowning any useful information in the noise).
  • the source portion S1 transmits mainly in the visible band and the source part S2 mainly in the infrared band.
  • the optical device 17b then projects the image of the source part S1 on the first portion P1 including the face of the driver, and the image of the source portion S1 on the second portion P2 including the license plate.
  • the infrared signals are selectively projected onto the P2 portion, containing the license plate, and the signals of the visible band on the portion P1 containing the face of the driver or said selected element inside the passenger compartment.
  • each source portion S1, S2 is set in order to produce at the level of the shooting means 10 a flow light from the chosen element and a luminous flux from the so-called license plate, such that the distance between said flows is compatible with the dynamic means of shooting.
  • the source portion S1 transmits a luminous flux of intensity greater than a factor L at the intensity of the luminous flux emitted by the source part S2, the objective being to obtain a homogeneous image on the sensor.
  • L the intensity of the luminous flux emitted by the source part S2
  • the source parts may additionally transmit signals of length different waveforms or not.
  • we will take a part S2 emitting infrared and a part S1 emitting in the visible.
  • the optical device 17b it is possible for example to use a lens of Fresnel (this allows to obtain a lens of large dimension, of focal short and low cost), knowing that the optical quality of the image of the source that one seeks to obtain is not at all critical.
  • the rays reflected by the license plate will therefore be limited to those from the second source part and the rays reflected by the driver's face through the windshield will therefore be limited to those from the first source part.
  • a method according to the invention thus allows with a single flash of flash and only one photograph taken to get a usable identification of vehicle, bearing the representation of the registration plate and the of the driver's face, while allowing the use of a compact source and the selective projection of the signals of the first or the second part of source, depending on the portion considered on the projection plane.
  • one will choose an element located behind the windshield, in the cockpit and other than the driver's face.
  • the present invention further has the optical device 10a upstream (i.e. shooting system 10a and the scene that we want to get a shot of view), an optical filter 18 filtering the incident signals according to their band spectrum, the filter 18 attenuating the intensity of the signals of the the infrared by a factor K, equal to the ratio of the filter densities between the infrared and visible spectra.
  • the optical device 10a upstream i.e. shooting system 10a and the scene that we want to get a shot of view
  • an optical filter 18 filtering the incident signals according to their band spectrum, the filter 18 attenuating the intensity of the signals of the the infrared by a factor K, equal to the ratio of the filter densities between the infrared and visible spectra.
  • K is chosen in an advantageous embodiment of the invention, so that, on average, the ratio between the intensity of the light signals representative of the zone Z1 and the intensity of the signals luminous representative of zone Z2 is less than E at the output of filter 18.
  • K will be selected substantially equalize the intensity of the light signals at the output of the filter 18 and representative of the first portion and the intensity of the light signals at the output of the filter 18 and representative of the second portion of the shot.
  • K will be selected so as to substantially equalize the signals generated by the sensor 10b and representative zone Z1 and those generated by the sensor 10b and representative of the zone Z2 of the shot.
  • a filter 18 has a density close to 0 in the visible range and between 0.5 and 1.5 in the infrared so as to attenuate in a ratio of 5 to 15 the signals from the infrared spectral range.
  • the waves reflected by a vehicle 16 traveling on the road 3 and present in the detection field of the radar are picked up by the antenna 2 and analyzed in the control unit 4, which calculates the speed of the vehicle 16, and compare this calculated speed with a maximum allowed speed predefined.
  • control unit 4 sends to the control box 9 of the device 8 a signal, causing the sending from the housing 9, to the flash 17, a command illumination and sending almost simultaneous from the housing 9, to the system of shooting 10, of a shooting command and this at the moment when the vehicle is in the position of taking of life determined previously (this moment is determined by the housing 9 according to the estimated speed for the vehicle).
  • the filter 18 can be replaced by a filter that also filters the signals according to their wavelength, disposed between the camera 10a and the sensor 10b.
  • the source 17a is on the contrary unique and emits in the visible and the infrared.
  • the optical device 17b is then adapted to project the visible part of the source on the first portion P1 of the projection plane P, and to project the part of the source on the second portion P2 of the projection plane (as indicated above, we consider that the two images of the source are coplanar, given the small inclination of the image planes introduced by the two optics and the distance between the optical device 17b and the images).
  • the optical device 17b can comprise, for example, a module of focusing F1 for the signals of the source 17a belonging to the band Visible Spectrum and F2 Focus Module for Source Signals 17a belonging to the infrared spectral band, at least one attenuating filter the signals of the visible band being arranged in association with the module F2 (ie upstream or downstream of it).
  • a filter r2 attenuating the signals of the visible band is arranged in association with the focusing module F2.
  • a filter r1 attenuating the infra-red signals, is arranged in association with the F1 module.
  • F1 and F2 modules have axes angularly offset so that the optical device 17b doubles the image of the source at the stage level and illuminates in visible the first portion of the scene and infrared the second portion of the scene.
  • these two focusing modules F1 and F2 are two optical Fresnel lens type.
  • the processing module is adapted to apply digital processing to images stored in memory 12.
  • This treatment makes it possible, for example, to isolate the plate image fraction F corresponding to the number plate on each image I, by referring to a base, also stored in memory 12, of standard plate models.
  • a character recognition program can then be applied to the F- plate image fraction.
  • This character recognition program provides N number of license estimated from the fraction F image plate, with a confidence score associated P N.
  • the module for example applies a digital processing on image I to isolate the face of the driver of the vehicle 16 (in another embodiment he can isolate the representation of the windshield of the vehicle and what appears in through it, or isolate the seat belt or mobile phone held in hand by the driver).
  • the set of numerical data corresponding to the image 1, and / or the estimated registration number N with the associated confidence score P N , and / or to the image fractions F plate and F face , and to the Speed violation V are then selected and assembled, and then delivered by the control box 9 to the transmission block 13.
  • the image I may be sent with only the fractions F plate and F face visible (and other parts of the image I masked) to preserve private information (in particular, the passenger (s) can not be identified).
  • the transmission block 13 compresses, formats these data, then sends them, via the communication link 14, to the exploitation center 15.
  • the administrative operations for example: editing and recording the report infringement comprising the data sent by the transmission block 13, the amount of the fine corresponding to the infringement committed by the driver of the vehicle 16, determination of the driver's from the estimated number of the license plate and sending the statement infringement.
  • the number of data transmitted by way of transmission is thus limited and can be further reduced by compression techniques. Account given the image processing implemented according to the invention, the data numbers sent on the transmission channel (s) are very reduced, relevant and of good quality.
  • a method and a system according to the invention makes it possible to adapt the means used to avoid obtaining an image that can not be exploited because of reflection characteristics very different from the various elements that we want include in the image. They take advantage of the strong infrared reflection of the plate and low transmission of new windshields treated to avoid the passage of infrared rays in the cabin and therefore its overheating, this for the purpose of passenger comfort

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