Systems and methods for suspect vehicle identification in traffic monitoring

A traffic monitoring system, comprising:

• one or more traffic sensors, each traffic sensor configured to generate recognition records by image processing captured images of respective vehicles, wherein the recognition records each comprise a dataset of one or more characteristic values representing vehicle characteristics;
• a server system communicatively coupled to the one or more traffic sensors, the server system comprising:
• a holistic signature module configured to analyze the recognition records so as to generate a vehicle signature for each of the respective vehicles,
• a database configured to store the vehicle signatures,
• a comparison module configured to compare a suspect vehicle signature with the vehicle signatures stored in the database, so as to identify one or more potential suspect vehicles whose vehicle signatures match the suspect vehicle signature in excess of a similarity threshold,
• a user computer communicatively coupled to the server system and having a graphical-user-interface configured to:
• display captured images of the one or more potential suspect vehicles in a virtual line-up, and
• enable the user to select from among the one or more potential suspect vehicles in the virtual line-up.