Real-time detection of the triangular and rectangular shape road signs

  • Authors:
  • Bogusław Cyganek

  • Affiliations:
  • AGH - University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Road signs recognition systems are developed to assist drivers and to help increase traffic safety. Shape detectors constitute a front-end in majority of such systems. In this paper we propose a method for robust detection of triangular, rectangular and rhombus shaped road signs in real traffic scenes. It starts with segmentation of colour images. For this purpose the histograms were created from hundreds of real warning and information signs. Then the characteristic points are detected by means of the developed symmetrical detector of local binary features. The points are further clusterized and used to select shapes from the input images. Finally, the shapes are verified to fulfil geometrical properties defined for the road signs. The proposed detector shows high accuracy and very fast operation time what was verified experimentally.