Vehicle Logo Recognition by Spatial-SIFT Combined with Logistic Regression

An efficient recognition framework requires both good feature representation and effective classification methods. This paper proposes such a framework based on a spatial Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) combined with a logistic regression classifier. The performance of the proposed framework is compared to that of state-of-the-art methods based on the Histogram of Orientation Gradients, SIFT features, Support Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbours classifiers. By testing with the largest vehicle logo data-set, it is shown that the proposed framework can achieve a classification accuracy of 99.93%, the best among all studied methods. Moreover, the proposed framework shows robustness when noise is added in both training and testing images

Car make and model recognition under limited lighting conditions at night

A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyCar make and model recognition (CMMR) has become an important part of intelligent transport systems. Information provided by CMMR can be utilized when licence plate numbers cannot be identified or fake number plates are used. CMMR can also be used when automatic identification of a certain model of a vehicle by camera is required. The majority of existing CMMR methods are designed to be used only in daytime when most car features can be easily seen. Few methods have been developed to cope with limited lighting conditions at night where many vehicle features cannot be detected. This work identifies car make and model at night by using available rear view features. A binary classifier ensemble is presented, designed to identify a particular car model of interest from other models. The combination of salient geographical and shape features of taillights and licence plates from the rear view are extracted and used in the recognition process. The majority vote of individual classifiers, support vector machine, decision tree, and k-nearest neighbours is applied to verify a target model in the classification process. The experiments on 100 car makes and models captured under limited lighting conditions at night against about 400 other car models show average high classification accuracy about 93%. The classification accuracy of the presented technique, 93%, is a bit lower than the daytime technique, as reported at 98 % tested on 21 CMMs (Zhang, 2013). However, with the limitation of car appearances at night, the classification accuracy of the car appearances gained from the technique used in this study is satisfied