Sensors (Feb 2025)

Vehicle Trajectory Repair Under Full Occlusion and Limited Datapoints with Roadside LiDAR

  • Qiyang Luo,
  • Zhenyu Xu,
  • Yibin Zhang,
  • Morris Igene,
  • Tamer Bataineh,
  • Mohammad Soltanirad,
  • Keshav Jimee,
  • Hongchao Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25041114
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
p. 1114

Abstract

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Object occlusion is a common challenge in roadside LiDAR-based vehicle tracking. This issue can cause variances in vehicle location and speed calculations. This paper proposes a vehicle tracking post-processing method designed to handle full occlusion and limited datapoint conditions. The first part of the method focuses on linking the disconnected trajectories of the same vehicle caused by full occlusion. The second part refines the vehicle representative point to enhance tracking accuracy. Performance evaluation demonstrates that the proposed method can detect and reconnect the trajectories of the same vehicle, even under prolonged full occlusion. Moreover, the refined vehicle representative point provides more stable speed estimates, even with sparse datapoints. This significantly increases the effective detection range of roadside LiDAR. This approach lays a strong foundation for the application of roadside LiDAR in emission analysis and near-crash studies.

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