An Efficient Vehicle Counting Method Using Mask R-CNN

In this paper, an accurate approach for vehicle counting in videos using Mask R-CNN and KLT tracker is proposed. Vehicle detection is performed for each N frames using Mask R-CNN instance segmentation model. This model outperforms other deep learning models that using bounding box detection as it provides a segmentation mask for each detected object, the outperformance comes up clearly in cases of occlusions. Once the objects are detected, their corner points are extracted and tracked. An efficient method is introduced to assign point trajectories to their corresponding detected vehicles. The proposed counting algorithm distinguishes precisely between the new vehicles and the counted ones. The experiments performed on diverse challenging videos show excellent results compared to state-of-the-art counting methods.