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A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH

  • Usman Zakir*
  • , Asima Usman
  • , Amir Hussain
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

A real time road sign detection and recognition system can provide an additional level of driver assistance leading to an improved safety to passengers, road users and other vehicles. Such Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) can be used to alert a driver about the presence of a road sign by reducing the risky situation during distraction, fatigue and in the presence of poor driving conditions. This paper is divided into two parts: Detection and Recognition. The detection part includes a novel Combined Colour Model (CCM) for the accurate and robust road sign colour segmentation from video stream. It is complemented by a novel approach to road sign recognition which is based on Local Energy based Shape Histogram (LESH). Experimental results and a detailed analysis to prove the effectiveness of the proposed vision system are provided. An accuracy rate of above 97.5% is recorded.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Proceedings
Pages629-636
Number of pages8
EditionPART 3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume7665 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • ADAS
  • CCM
  • Colour Segmentation
  • Detection
  • LESH
  • Recognition
  • SVM

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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