A Self-Adaptive Traffic Light Control System Based on YOLO

Abstract

Traffic congestion is becoming a serious problem with the large number of cars in the roads. Vehicles queue length waiting to be processed at the intersection is rising sharply with the increase of the traffic flow, and the traditional traffic lights cannot efficiently schedule it. A real-time traffic light control algorithm based on the traffic flow is proposed in this paper. In fact, we use computer vision and machine learning to have the characteristics of the competing traffic flows at the signalized road intersection. This is done by a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection based on a deep Convolutional Neural Networks called You Only Look Once (YOLO). Then traffic signal phases are optimized according to collected data, mainly queue length and waiting time per vehicle, to enable as much as more vehicles to pass safely with minimum waiting time. YOLO can be implemented on embedded controller using Transfer Learning technique, which makes it possible to perform Deep Neural Network on limited hardware resources.