Bicycle detection using pedaling movement by spatiotemporal Gabor filtering

This paper proposes an algorithm for detecting bicycles on the road from a sequence of images acquired by a stationary video camera. This algorithm is suitable for monitoring the traffic situation for safety, our algorithm includes shape-based object detection using HOG and SVM and relative motion detection for leg movements in bicycle pedaling. The leg movement, which can be achieved by using spatiotemporal 3D Gabor filtering, can discriminate bicycles from similar objects such as motorbikes.