Traffic Load Computation using Matlab Simulink Model Blockset

Abstract: Real time traffic signal control is a serious issue to be resolved to control the increasing traffic congestion. This paper outlines an efficient simulation model for counting the vehicles from the colored and gray-scale images through image processing techniques in Simulink environment. Video and Image Processing Blockset is a tool used for the rapid design, prototyping, graphical simulation, and efficient code generation of video and image processing algorithms. The approach used is morphological operation (Opening) which works very effectively for images captured. The developed process involves object feature identification, detection, and counting objects.

Keywords: Matlab, Morphological Operations, Vehicle detection, Simulink, video and Image processing