Abstract
Road sign recognition is a driver support function that can be used to notify and warn the driver by showing the restrictions that may be effective on the current stretch of road. Examples for such regulations are ‘traffic light ahead’ or ‘pedestrian crossing’ indications. The present investigation targets the recognition of Malaysian road and traffic signs in real-time. Real-time video is taken by a digital camera from a moving vehicle and real world road signs are then extracted using vision-only information. The system is based on two stages, one performs the detection and another one is for recognition. In the first stage, a hybrid color segmentation algorithm has been developed and tested. In the second stage, an introduced robust custom feature extraction method is used for the first time in a road sign recognition approach. Finally, a multilayer artificial neural network (ANN) has been created to recognize and interpret various road signs. It is robust because it has been tested on both standard and non-standard road signs with significant recognition accuracy. This proposed system achieved an average of 99.90% accuracy with 99.90% of sensitivity, 99.90% of specificity, 99.90% of f-measure, and 0.001 of false positive rate (FPR) with 0.3 s computational time. This low FPR can increase the system stability and dependability in real-time applications.
Highlights
A road sign recognition system can technically be developed as part of an intelligent transportation system that can continuously monitor the driver, the vehicle, and the road in order, for example, to inform the driver in time about upcoming decision points regarding navigation and potentially risky traffic situations
This paper focused on the standard and non-standard road sign detection and recognition
The results showed a higher accuracy compared to the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG)-support vector machine (SVM) system
Summary
A road sign recognition system can technically be developed as part of an intelligent transportation system that can continuously monitor the driver, the vehicle, and the road in order, for example, to inform the driver in time about upcoming decision points regarding navigation and potentially risky traffic situations. Intelligence Vehicle Design (AIVD) [2]. It is widely used for intelligent driving assistance [3], self-directed vehicles, traffic rules and regulation awareness, disabled (blind) pedestrian awareness and so on. Road sign detection and recognition can be a part of self-driving car [4] technology to determine the road-traffic environment in real-time. Digital image processing to detect a specific object in a real-time environment [6].
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