Scientists have developed an efficient, low-cost obstacle detection and alert system that can help cars avoid colliding with cows or other animals on the road in real time. "In our current work, we have proposed and designed a system based on histogram research including oriented gradients and boosted cascade classifiers for automatic cow detection," they said. "The proposed system has achieved an overall efficiency of 80 per cent in terms of cow detection," researchers said. However, road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29 years old, according to the World Health Organisation, is road traffic collisions. "The proposed system is a low-cost, highly reliable system which can easily be implemented in automobiles for detection of cow or any other animal after proper training and testing on the highway," researchers said.

Source: dna April 09, 2017 06:45 UTC