This paper details a novel two-stage vehicle detection and recognition
algorithm by combining an image-processing region of interest (ROI) d
esignator to cue a secondary recognition process implemented using pri
ncipal component analysis (PCA) as input to a Multi-Layered Perceptron
(MLP) classifier. Both the image-processing system and the MLP classi
fier have been designed for real-time implementation and data-fusion w
ith other information sources.