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Traffic-Oriented Three-Dimensional Vehicle Reconstruction Using Fixed Roadside Monocular Camera Sensors

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Fixed roadside monocular cameras are widely used as low-cost sensing devices in intelligent transportation systems; however, extracting reliable three-dimensional (3D) information from such sensors remains challenging due to limited baselines, long observation distances, and moving vehicles. This paper presents a traffic-oriented 3D vehicle reconstruction framework based on monocular image sequences captured by fixed roadside camera sensors. Semantic and non-semantic vehicle feature points are jointly exploited to balance structural consistency and surface completeness, and a feature-map-consistency-based optimization strategy is introduced to refine feature point localization and reduce reprojection errors. In addition, an optimized incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipeline incorporating traffic-aware initialization, keyframe selection, and local bundle adjustment is developed to improve reconstruction efficiency. Experiments on real-world traffic surveillance videos show that the proposed method reduces the mean reprojection error by 13.6% and shortens reconstruction time by 43.9% compared with widely used incremental SfM systems.

Source: Sensors

DOI: 10.3390/s26041324

Authors: Chu Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Liangbin Li, Xianhua Cai

Institution: Southeast University

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Vision and Imaging

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,137