Tracking and counting vehicles

Problem Definition:

In this project we will try to detect, track and find the number of vehicles has passed on a specific lane.

For this purpose, we have to estimate the background and extract the foreground images. Subsequently, an algorithm needs to be developed to count a number of vehicles.

Usage:

Download the M6 Motorway video and rename it as video.mp4 and move it into the same directory with the source code and run as python3 counter.py

Explanation and short demonstration:

See Report for the explanation. Here is a short demo