Road Traffic Monitoring Lecture
Autonomous Car research and development is booming today, with many companies developing such cars, e.g., TESLA, BMW, MERCEDES, FIAT, TOYOTA, to name a few. Very many application areas emerge from companies like UBER and LYFT, that tend to change the city landscape in the near future, e.g.,
-Car rentals (instead of car purchases)
-Autonomous taxis.
-Autonomous vans for goods transportation.

This lecture overviews Road Traffic Monitoring that has many applications in in autonomous car perception and smart city management. It covers the following topics in detail: Traffic Attributes, Traffic Counters, Sensing Technologies, Video Imaging Traffic Counters, Traffic Attributes by Detection, Traffic Attributes by Clustering, Traffic Attributes by Regression.