Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition

Abstract

As placement of traffic sign board do not follow any international standard, it may be difficultfor non-local residents to recognize and infer the signs easily. So, this project mainly focuses ondemonstrating a system that can help facilitate this inconvenience. This can be achieved byinterpreting the traffic sign as a voice note in the user’s preferred language. Therefore, the wholeprocess involves detecting the traffic sign, detecting textual data if any with the help of availabledatasets and then processing it into an audio as the output to the user in his/her preferred language.The proposed system not only tackles the above-mentioned problem, but also to an extent ensuressafer driving by reducing accidents through conveying the traffic signs properly. The techniques usedto implement the system include digital image processing, natural language processing and machinelearning concepts. The implementation of the system includesthree major steps which are detection of traffic sign from a captured traffic scene, classification of traffic signs and finally conversion of classified traffic signs to audio message.