METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SEQUENCING OF VEHICLES IN SIDE-BY-SIDE DRIVE-THRU CONFIGURATIONS VIA APPEARANCE-BASED CLASSIFICATION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for automated sequencing of vehicles in side-by-side drive-thru configurations via appearance-based classification.SOLUTION: The method comprises: an image capturing device capturing video of a merge-point area associated with multiple lanes of traffic merging; detecting in the video a vehicle as it traverses the merge-point area; classifying the detected vehicle associated with traversing the merge-point area as coming from one of the merging lanes; and aggregating the vehicle classifications to generate a merge sequence of the detected vehicles.