TY - JFULL AU - Saad M. Al-Garni and Adel A. Abdennour PY - 2008/1/ TI - Moving Vehicles Detection Using Automatic Background Extraction T2 - International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering SP - 2917 EP - 2922 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/258 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 24, 2008 N2 - Vehicle detection is the critical step for highway monitoring. In this paper we propose background subtraction and edge detection technique for vehicle detection. This technique uses the advantages of both approaches. The practical applications approved the effectiveness of this method. This method consists of two procedures: First, automatic background extraction procedure, in which the background is extracted automatically from the successive frames; Second vehicles detection procedure, which depend on edge detection and background subtraction. Experimental results show the effective application of this algorithm. Vehicles detection rate was higher than 91%. ER -