Deep Learning Traffic Sign Recognition in Autonomous Vehicle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharifah Maryam Alhabshee ◽  
Abu Ubaidah bin Shamsudin
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Traffic Sign Recognition ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Sign Recognition

Deep learning–based traffic sign recognition for unmanned autonomous vehicles

2018 ◽  
Vol 232 (5) ◽  
pp. 497-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Zang ◽  
Zhihua Wei ◽  
Maomao Bao ◽  
Jiujun Cheng ◽  
Dongdong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Traffic Sign Recognition ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
The Time Domain

Being one of the key techniques for unmanned autonomous vehicle, traffic sign recognition is applied to assist autopilot. Colors are very important clues to identify traffic signs; however, color-based methods suffer performance degradation in the case of light variation. Convolutional neural network, as one of the deep learning methods, is able to hierarchically learn high-level features from the raw input. It has been proved that convolutional neural network–based approaches outperform the color-based ones. At present, inputs of convolutional neural networks are processed either as gray images or as three independent color channels; the learned color features are still not enough to represent traffic signs. Apart from colors, temporal constraint is also crucial to recognize video-based traffic signs. The characteristics of traffic signs in the time domain require further exploration. Quaternion numbers are able to encode multi-dimensional information, and they have been employed to describe color images. In this article, we are inspired to present a quaternion convolutional neural network–based approach to recognize traffic signs by fusing spatial and temporal features in a single framework. Experimental results illustrate that the proposed method can yield correct recognition results and obtain better performance when compared with the state-of-the-art work.

Autonomous Vehicle Application for Improving Traffic Sign Learning near Ramps

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (10) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Zhang ◽  
Leon Stenneth ◽  
Xiyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Traffic Sign Recognition ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Speed Reduction ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
Path Information ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Location Adjustment

The state-of-the-art traffic sign recognition (TSR) algorithms are designed to recognize the textual information of a traffic sign at over 95% accuracy. Even though, they are still not ready for complex roadworks near ramps. In real-world applications, when the vehicles are running on the freeway, they may misdetect the traffic signs for the ramp, which will become inaccurate feedback to the autonomous driving applications and result in unexpected speed reduction. The misdetection problems have drawn minimal attention in recent TSR studies. In this paper, it is proposed that the existing TSR studies should transform from the point-based sign recognition to path-based sign learning. In the proposed pipeline, the confidence of the TSR observations from normal vehicles can be increased by clustering and location adjustment. A supervised learning model is employed to classify the clustered learned signs and complement their path information. Test drives are conducted in 12 European countries to calibrate the models and validate the path information of the learned sign. After model implementation, the path accuracy over 1,000 learned signs can be increased from 75.04% to 89.80%. This study proves the necessity of the path-based TSR studies near freeway ramps and the proposed pipeline demonstrates a good utility and broad applicability for sensor-based autonomous vehicle applications.

scholarly journals Exploiting synergies of mobile mapping sensors and deep learning for traffic sign recognition systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Arcos-García ◽  
Mario Soilán ◽  
Juan A. Álvarez-García ◽  
Belén Riveiro
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Traffic Sign Recognition ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Mobile Mapping ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
Recognition Systems
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