Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Identification of ambulance in traffic videos using image processing techniques Subject The topic of the resource Color space thresholding; Multilevel thresholding; Optical Character Recognition (OCR); Region matching for text detection Description An account of the resource Traffic congestion is one of the commonly faced problems in the Urban areas. To eliminate these problems, there is a need for an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) that proposes an efficient method to reduce the traffic problems and introduces the priority system for the Emergency vehicles. This paper proposes two frameworks that identify ambulance in traffic videos based on features such as color, siren and text. Frames are extracted from videos to employ methods like multilevel thresholding and region matching. Multilevel thresholding is used for segmenting the ambulance from the other occurring vehicles based on the white color. Region matching for text detection method is employed in the segmented vehicle. Color space thresholding is used for the detection of siren based on red or blue color feature. Optical character recognition (OCR) is employed to extract the text in the frame. Word comparison and Matching detects the ambulance text based on the outcome of OCR. The performance of Framework 1 and Framework 2 are evaluated based on Word accuracy and from the experimental results it is observed that Framework 2 is better from 75% word accuracy. 2018, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc. All Rights reserved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Karthik Raj P.R.; Praveen Kumar P.U. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol-10, pp. 213-224. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046372114&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=2697b41f14295c6755c2c1fb87e78be0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046372114&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=2697b41f14295c6755c2c1fb87e78be0</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 1943023X Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Karthik Raj P.R., Department of Computer Science, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Praveen Kumar P.U., Department of Computer Science, Christ University, Bengaluru, India