Visual traffic counting so far has been carried out by static cameras at streets or aerial pictures from sky. This work initiates a new approach to count traffic flow by using populated vehicle driving recorders. Mainly vehicles are counted by a camera moves along a route on opposite lane. Vehicle detection are implemented in video frames by using deep learning YOLO3 first, and then vehicle trajectories are counted in the spatial-temporal space called motion profile. Motion continuity, direction, and detection missing are considered to avoid multiple counting of oncoming vehicles. This method has been tested on naturalistic driving videos lasting for hours. The counted vehicle numbers can be interpolated as a flow of opposite lanes from a patrol vehicle for traffic control. The mobile counting of traffic is more flexible than the traffic monitoring by cameras at street corners.
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