Improve Vehicle Counting Logic to Count Each Vehicle Once Per Hour

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🚧 Issue: Improve Vehicle Counting Logic to Count Each Vehicle Once Per Hour

🧠 Problem

Currently, the system detects and counts vehicles for each frame, resulting in multiple counts for the same vehicle. This causes inflated and inaccurate vehicle counts.

✅ Expected Behavior

• Each vehicle should be counted only once per hour, even if it appears in multiple frames.
• The final count should reflect the number of unique vehicles per hour.

🛠 Proposed Solution

• Implement vehicle tracking (e.g., using DeepSORT, SORT, or BYTETrack).
• Assign a unique ID to each detected vehicle.
• Use a buffer or dictionary to store and track counted IDs.
• Reset the ID buffer every hour to allow for fresh counting.
• Ensure tracking is robust enough to handle occlusions and re-identification.

📌 Acceptance Criteria

• Vehicles are not counted multiple times within an hour.
• Hourly vehicle count reflects accurate, unique vehicle entries.
• Tested with various traffic scenarios (e.g., high density, occlusion).
• Minimal performance overhead added by tracking system.

💡 References

• DeepSORT GitHub Repository
• OpenCV Object Tracking
• BYTETrack GitHub

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📂 Project: AI Based Traffic Management System
🏷️ Type: Feature Enhancement
🕓 Priority: High