Traffic Signs Detection and Recognition

Prepared by:

Sabah R. Mahmood Muhammad M. Ahmed

 Abstract

Traffic sign are essential to road safety. It helps the driver by giving valuable safety and
navigation related information, this project aims to propose an efficient algorithm that
will detect and recognize as well as traffic signs in a wide range of lighting conditions
from the real time video, recorded video and static image of road side which is taken by
a video camera. Our algorithm is based on color based (red & blue color) detection of
the traffic sign, Color filtering and segmentation is used to recognize the boundary of
traffic sign in binary mode. At the feature extraction stage, the RGB traffic sign region
is cropped. The image is resized to 128x128 pixels. This algorithm had been
implemented and tested using Matlab. Experimental result shows that the system is
robust to changes in the illumination and also able to identify multiple traffic signs
placed at any position on road side. Finally, Experimental results show that our system
can give a high detection rate for all types of traffic signs used in Kurdistan.
 Methodology

Trafc sign detection methods are inherently dependent on the nature of data for
which they were developed.

The approaches that we are going to follow in the detection stage have traditionally
been divided into two kinds:

1. Color based methods.

2. Shape based methods.
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