VISION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION FOR ASSISTED DRIVING OF ROAD VEHICLES

Miguel Ángel García, Miguel Ángel Sotelo, Ernesto Martín Gorostiza

2004

Abstract

A system for real-time traffic sign detection is described in this paper. The vision-based traffic sign detection module developed in this work is intended for assisted driving of road vehicles by handling color images in RGB (Red, Green and Blue) format. In a first step a preattentive area of interest is determined based on the vertical projection of edge pixels. In a second step, a shape analysis is performed. In a third step, a color analysis is performed, and finally, a template is fitted. Some results obtained on a series of real road images are presented in order to illustrate the robustness of the detection system.

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in Harvard Style

García M., Sotelo M. and Gorostiza E. (2004). VISION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION FOR ASSISTED DRIVING OF ROAD VEHICLES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 19-24. DOI: 10.5220/0001133300190024


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco04,
author={Miguel Ángel García and Miguel Ángel Sotelo and Ernesto Martín Gorostiza},
title={VISION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION FOR ASSISTED DRIVING OF ROAD VEHICLES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={19-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001133300190024},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - VISION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION FOR ASSISTED DRIVING OF ROAD VEHICLES
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - García M.
AU - Sotelo M.
AU - Gorostiza E.
PY - 2004
SP - 19
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0001133300190024