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Recognition of retroreflective traffic signs by a vehicle camera system
The systems of traffic sign recognition are based on the evaluation of three components
of every sign: shape, colour and pictogram. There are different factors that can have an influence
on the efficiency of detection and recognition of these components. One of the most important
factors is the quality of the retroreflective sign surface. Retroreflective sheeting improves the
readability of colour and pictogram of traffic sign by increasing brightness of its background
and/or legend elements. The aim of the paper is to provide a comprehensive survey of the
efficiency of sign’s recognition by a modern vehicle camera system. The traffic sign sheeting was
measured by the handled retroreflectometer. Then this measurement was repeated by the modern
camera system used for recognition of traffic signs in the vehicle. The results of this paper present
the analysis of the recognition efficiency of traffic signs and the overview of other factors that
can have a significant impact on sign detection and recognition distance. The results can be used
for creation a traffic sign database for learning-based recognition techniques to vehicle camera
systems
Stereoscopic vision in vehicle navigation.
Traffic sign (TS) detection and tracking is one of the main tasks of an autonomous vehicle which is addressed in the field of computer vision. An autonomous vehicle must have vision based recognition of the road to follow the rules like every other vehicle on the road. Besides, TS detection and tracking can be used to give feedbacks to the driver. This can significantly increase safety in making driving decisions. For a successful TS detection and tracking changes in weather and lighting conditions should be considered. Also, the camera is in motion, which results in image distortion and motion blur. In this work a fast and robust method is proposed for tracking the stop signs in videos taken with stereoscopic cameras that are mounted on the car. Using camera parameters and the detected sign, the distance between the stop sign and the vehicle is calculated. This calculated distance can be widely used in building visual driver-assistance systems
INTELLIGENT MACHINE VISION SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION
Abstract
We proposed an intelligent machine vision system to recognize traffic signs captured from a
video camera installed in a vehicle. By recognizing the traffic signs automatically, it helps the
driver to recognize the signs properly when drivig, to avoid accidents caused by mis-recognized
the traffic signs.The system is divided into two stages : detection stage to localize signs from a
whole image, and classification stage that classifies the detected sign into one of the reference
signs. A geometric fragmentation technique, a method somewhat similar to Genetic Algorithm
(GA) is employed to detect circular sign. Then a ring partitioned method that divides an image
into several ring-shaped areas is used to classify the signs. From the experimental results, the
proposed techniques are able to recognize traffic sign images under the problems of
illumination changes, rotation, and occlusion efficiently.
Keywords : Machine vision, traffic sign recognition, geometric fragmentation, ring partitioned
matching
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A new approach for in-vehicle camera traffic sign detection and recognition
In this paper we discuss theoretical foundations and a practical realization of a circular traffic sign detection and recognition system operating on board of a vehicle. To initially detect sign candidates in the scene, we utilize the circular Hough transform with an appropriate post-processing in the vote space. Track of an already established candidate is maintained using a function that encodes the relationship between a unique feature representation of the target object and the affine transinformation it is subject to. This function is learned on-the-fly via regression from random distortions applied to the last stable image of the sign. Finally, we adopt a novel AdaBoost algorithm to learn a sign similarity measure from example image pairs labeled either "same" or "different". This enables construction of an efficient multi-class classifier. Prototype implementation has been evaluated on a video captured in crowded street scenes. Good detection and recognition performance was achieved for a 14 class problem which reveals a high potential of our approach
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