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- Title
In-vehicle camera traffic sign detection and recognition.
- Authors
Ruta, Andrzej; Porikli, Fatih; Watanabe, Shintaro; Yongmin Li
- Abstract
In this paper, we discuss theoretical foundations and a practical realization of a real-time traffic sign detection, tracking and recognition system operating on board of a vehicle. In the proposed framework, a generic detector refinement procedure based on mean shift clustering is introduced. This technique is shown to improve the detection accuracy and reduce the number of false positives for a broad class of object detectors for which a soft response's confidence can be sensibly estimated. The track of an already established candidate is maintained over time using an instance-specific tracking function that encodes the relationship between a unique feature representation of the target object and the affine distortions it is subject to. We show that this function can be learned on-the-fly via regression from random transformations applied to the image of the object in known pose. Secondly, we demonstrate its capability of reconstructing the full-face view of a sign from substantial view angles. In the recognition stage, a concept of class similarity measure learned from image pairs is discussed and its realization using SimBoost, a novel version of AdaBoost algorithm, is analyzed. Suitability of the proposed method for solving multi-class traffic sign classification problems is shown experimentally for different feature representations of an image. Overall performance of our system is evaluated based on a prototype C++ implementation. Illustrative output generated by this demo application is provided as a supplementary material attached to this paper.
- Subjects
TRAFFIC signs &; signals; AUTOMATIC tracking; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; ALGORITHMS
- Publication
Machine Vision & Applications, 2011, Vol 22, Issue 2, p359
- ISSN
0932-8092
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00138-009-0231-x