Traffic Sign Legibility for Different Sign Background Colors: Results of an Open Road Study at Freeway Speeds

Author(s):  
Dillon Funkhouser ◽  
Susan Chrysler ◽  
Alicia Nelson ◽  
Eun Sug Park
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Author(s):  
Stacy A. Balk ◽  
Justin S. Graving ◽  
Ryan G. Chanko ◽  
Richard A. Tyrrell

While considerable data indicate that positioning retroreflective markings on a pedestrian's extremities can dramatically enhance nighttime conspicuity, most relevant safety devices (vests) limit coverage to the torso. We asked 120 participants to press a button whenever they recognized that a pedestrian was present during a short drive at night. A test pedestrian wearing different configurations of retroreflective markings was positioned on the left shoulder of an unilluminated two-lane roadway. Compared to an ANSI class-II vest alone, response distances were significantly greater when the vest was supplemented with ankle markings and when a full biological motion configuration was worn. Conspicuity was also greater when the pedestrian was walking and when facing the approaching test vehicle. Relative to a full eleven-element biological motion configuration, adding just two retroreflective ankle straps to a conventional safety vest is considerably more practical while still providing substantial conspicuity benefits.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy A. Balk ◽  
Justin S. Graving ◽  
Ryan G. Chanko ◽  
Richard A. Tyrrell
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2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1703-1707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lun-bo Li ◽  
Guang-fu Ma
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajashekar A ◽  
Shruti Hegdekar ◽  
Dikpal Shrestha ◽  
Prabin Nepal ◽  
Sujanb Neupane

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaofei Huang ◽  
Shian Qiu ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Yibing Zhao ◽  
Pan Cui ◽  
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Author(s):  
Dongxian Yu ◽  
Jiatao Kang ◽  
Zaihui Cao ◽  
Neha Jain

In order to solve the current traffic sign detection technology due to the interference of various complex factors, it is difficult to effectively carry out the correct detection of traffic signs, and the robustness is weak, a traffic sign detection algorithm based on the region of interest extraction and double filter is designed.First, in order to reduce environmental interference, the input image is preprocessed to enhance the main color of each logo.Secondly, in order to improve the extraction ability Of Regions Of Interest, a Region Of Interest (ROI) detector based on Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) and Wave Equation (WE) was defined, and candidate Regions were selected through the ROI detector.Then, an effective HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradient) descriptor is introduced as the detection feature of traffic signs, and SVM (Support Vector Machine) is used to classify them into traffic signs or background.Finally, the context-aware filter and the traffic light filter are used to further identify the false traffic signs and improve the detection accuracy.In the GTSDB database, three kinds of traffic signs, which are indicative, prohibited and dangerous, are tested, and the results show that the proposed algorithm has higher detection accuracy and robustness compared with the current traffic sign recognition technology.


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