Some methodological deficiencies in studies on traffic accident predictors

The paper discusses some methodological problems in (psychological) research on traffic accident predictors and reviews a convenience sample of the literature. Three methodological aspects are identified as being important: reliability of accident predictors, time period for accidents used as dependent variable, and culpability for accidents. Papers are scrutinized and most are found to be wanting in these aspects. Traffic researchers do not adhere to, or hardly even discuss, these basic methodological problems. It is concluded that the current research into (psychological) accident predictors is fraught with methodological deficiencies. Why most studies seem to be deficient in these aspects is not clear, as several researchers have pointed out these problems.     

基于邻域运动一致性的运动矢量快速构建算法

在时移电视应用中,视频快进播放要求视频服务器能够通过跳帧抽取视频序列中的I帧和P帧的方式输出快速播放码流,当所跳帧中含有P帧时,必需对抽取出来的快进码流中的P帧进行重编码.为提高抽取后重编码效率,可利用码流中的原始运动矢量对跳帧后新参考帧条件下的运动矢量进行预测.在FDVS和ADVS算法基础上,提出了一种基于宏块及其相邻宏块运动一致性的算法来修正原始运动矢量,并通过实验将其与现有的FDVS和ADVS算法进行比较.