Cloud Platform Emergency Event Detection via Vehicle Acceleration

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Solution Overview

Problem

In the field of automatic driving, there is a need to accurately and quickly determine the traveling states of surrounding vehicles to prevent traffic accidents, as existing methods are inadequate in analyzing video data to detect emergency events such as sudden braking or acceleration.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that acquire video data from cameras in the road environment, detect target vehicles, calculate their acceleration, and determine if an emergency event occurs, enabling early warning systems to alert surrounding vehicles through a cloud control platform and edge computing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If video data is analyzed to detect emergency events, then detection accuracy is improved, but processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining emergency event types (emergency braking, emergency acceleration, etc.) and their corresponding detection criteria before actual analysis. This allows the system to quickly match video data features against pre-established patterns, reducing real-time processing time while maintaining high detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The video data analysis process is segmented into distinct modules: target vehicle detection, trajectory tracking, acceleration calculation, and emergency event judgment. Each module processes specific aspects independently, allowing parallel computation and reducing overall processing time while maintaining comprehensive detection capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Area of stationary object

If multiple cameras are deployed to monitor road environment, then detection coverage is improved, but system complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection coverageVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cloud control platform serves multiple functions: it receives video data from multiple cameras, performs target detection, tracks trajectories, calculates accelerations, and identifies emergency events. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems, reducing overall complexity while maintaining extensive detection coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud control platform acts as an intermediary between multiple camera systems and the emergency detection algorithm. It centralizes data processing and coordination, allowing the system to manage multiple cameras uniformly through standardized interfaces and protocols, thereby reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If real-time acceleration calculation is performed, then response time is improved, but computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse timeVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs acceleration calculation only for detected target vehicles that are deemed relevant to safety monitoring, rather than processing all possible objects in the video frames. This selective processing approach maintains fast response time for critical events while reducing overall computational resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP3893221B1Event detection method and apparatus for cloud control platform, device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.02.07 APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

An event detection method and apparatus, a device, and a computer storage medium are provided, which are related to intelligent transportation and automatic driving. In a specific implementation, a target vehicle located in a target area is detected according to a surveillance video of the target area; acquisition time for the target vehicle and location information of the target vehicle in image frames corresponding to the acquisition time are determined; an acceleration of the target vehicle is obtained according to at least the acquisition time and the location information; and it is judged whether an emergency event occurs for the target vehicle according to the acceleration of the target vehicle. The acceleration of the target vehicle calculated by the embodiments of the present disclosure has a high accuracy, so that a more accurate judgment result can be obtained when subsequently judging whether an emergency event occurs for the target vehicle.