TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION IN WEATHER CONDITIONS
1st Routhu Abhinav Sarath Chandra,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah
Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, AP,
India.
sarathrouthu123@gmail.com
2nd Paruchuri Sneha,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah
Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, AP,
India.
3rd Nagothi Vaibhav Anjani Kumar, 5th Dr. T.Santhi Sri,
Department of Computer Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Science and Engineering, Koneru
Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, AP, India. Lakshmaiah Education Foundation,
Vaddeswaram, AP, India.
4th Jampani Jaya Sai
Student, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering,
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation,
Vaddeswaram, AP, India.
Abstract— One of the most significant issues facing
autonomous automobiles and sophisticated driver support
systems is traffic sign recognition (TSR) (ADAS) in
different weather conditions. TSR makes it possible for the
front-facing smart cameras placed on the automobile to
identify the signboards and take the appropriate action.
Recognizing stop signs, speed limits, turn signs, etc. are a
few instances. Traffic signs are essential for controlling
traffic, enforcing driver behavior, and preventing accidents,
injuries, and fatalities.
A key component of any Intelligent Transportation System
(ITS) is traffic sign management with automatic detection
and recognition in a very difficult weather condition.
Convolutional neural network (CNN) was created for visual
object recognition based on deep learning and has
successfully fixed the issues with traditional object
recognition. And for the classifications of the images in a
hard weather conditions we are using the Enhance Net to
classify the enhance image form the challenging image and
to predict the coordinates for the traffic sign we use ROI
Extraction .The performance of the system linked to various
challenging conditions that obfuscate the traffic-sign images
were acquired in the wild was not taken into consideration
when the majority of these algorithms were assessed on
clean and task datasets. In this project, we are using the
advanced architectures of CNN such as Google Net, Alex
net, Res Net etc., and for the challenge classifier we use ROI
Extraction and Enhance-Net and Skip Enhance-Net for the
recognition of the traffic signs in different weather
conditions. Three phases represent the suggested
architecture. The first is to take the image from the dataset
and extract the enhance image from the challenging image
using the Enhance-Net and the Skip Enhance-Net. And, the
second phase is to provide the enhance image to the ROI
Extraction where to find the coordinates of the traffic signs
in the image. At last phase we use the coordinates of the
ROI Extraction and give it to the sign classifier to detect the
traffic sign. Further, we contrast our strategy with various
Convolution neural TSDR with Weather challenging
approaches and demonstrate that our strategy performs
significantly better than them.
Keywords: Machine learning, CNN, Sign classifier, ROI
Extraction, Enhance Net and Skip Enhance Net
I. INTRODUCTION
The recognition and detection of traffic signs is essential to
driver automation and driverless car technology. A TSDR
method that is not only precise but also resilient and reliable
in a wide range of real-life environments is one of the key
requirements for the safe and widespread adoption of this
technology. Moreover, in additional to the many distinct
traffic signs that need to be identified, the traffic
photographs that are obtained in the environment are not
perfect and frequently masked by various unfavorable
weather situations and motion distortions, which
significantly raises the level of complexity of this work.
TSDR has been the subject of various publications because
to its difficulty as a research challenge. Traffic Sign
Detection (TSD) and Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) are
two discrete activities that may be separated from the
overall effort of TSDR (TSR). The majority of traditional
TSD research approaches focus on manually extracting
features from multiple variables, including geometrical
forms, edge enhancement, and color information. The main
component of a color-based technique is the threshold-based
delineation of the area of a traffic sign in a certain color
space, also including hue saturation intensity (HSI), hue-
chroma-luminance, and others. Moreover, a significant
disadvantage from these are color-based techniques is that
they are very vulnerable to changes in lighting, which might
happen often in specific circumstances. The present
literature makes substantial use of pattern strategies, such as
Canny-Edge detection and Histogram-Oriented Gradients, to
address this problem. Even so, size and scale change,
disorientation, and geometric distortion of traffic sign
sections caused by motion abnormalities in real-time video
stream make these systems impractical. TSR techniques, on
the other hand, use color and/or shape-based characteristics
to train classifiers like as Random Forest, Support Vector
Machine (SVM).
Deep learning (DL) advancements in various aspects of
computer vision like as image classification, segmentation
techniques, and object recognition problems have resulted in
widespread deployment of these methodologies for TSDR
have utilized a custom-made CNN to concurrently detect
and evaluate the limit of the traffic sign geographic areas.
Traffic sign areas are quite tiny in comparison to the items
that regularly show in existing object identification datasets,
and so have a very modest ROI to backdrop ratio. Yuan et
al. suggested a CNN-based multi-resolution feature
matching architecture to overcome this difficulty.
II. MOTIVATION
III. LITERARTURE SURVEY / RELATED
WORK
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V. VII. RESULT ANALYSIS

VI. VIII. CONCLUSION

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