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However, due to the tiny size of moving vehicles and cluttered background, it is difficult to distinguish actual targets from random noise and pseudo-moving objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. In contrast to the currently overused deep-learning-based methods, this study takes full advantage of the geometric properties of vehicle tracklets (segments of moving object trajectory) and proposes a tracklet-feature-based method that can achieve high precision and high recall. The approach is a two-step strategy: (1) smoothing filtering is used to suppress noise, and then a non-parametric-based background subtracting model is applied for obtaining preliminary recognition results with high recall but low precision; and (2) generated tracklets are used to discriminate between true and false vehicles by tracklet feature classification. 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