Intelligent traffic detection with millimeter-wave radar and camera

With the impact of COVID-19, more people are choosing to travel by private cars, which will cause problems such as traffic congestion. It is essential for traffic engineers to have real-time traffic volume, speed, and individual vehicle length. In this study, the ACC7350 millimeter-wave radar was tested, and its advantages and disadvantages were analyzed in vehicle speed, distance from the radar, and vehicle trajectory. The speed detection error between MWR and GPS was within +/- 6%, and the distance detection error was +/- 20%. Then the traffic flow detection results of the camera and millimeter-wave radar were compared and analyzed. Results show that the mistakes of traffic flow detection based on vision and MWR are +/- 4% and +/- 13%, respectively. Finally, we proposed a traffic data processing method combined with a camera-based target tracking algorithm.