Abstract

Intelligent highway safety systems are very helpful as they helps us in reducing the number of accidents that are happening on the road between the vehicle and other obstacles on the road. By intelligent highway safety system, we mean automatic lane detection and object detection (vehicle detection, pedestrian detection and animal detection) systems which assists the driver by identifying the potential threat on the road and also gives the alert signal to the driver for preventing the collision of the vehicle with the other obstacles on the road. Lot of work has already been done in automatic lane detection , vehicle detection and pedestrian detection but still researches are going on in automatic animal detection system which can help in reducing the number of collisions that are happening between vehicle and the animals on the road. In this paper first we will briefly explain the necessity of automatic animal detection system, then the brief survey of other methods which have been used in the past for the animal detection followed by our proposed method based on image processing techniques and Vision Assistant and LabVIEW software of NI for automatic animal detection in relation to Indian scenario. The proposed technique is applied to different videos of cow and dog which are mostly found on Indian roads. The system correctly identifies the animal in the video and also alerts the driver once the animal is detected in the video. An overall efficiency of almost 90% is achieved for animal detection.