Recognition of speed signs in uncertain and dynamic environments

The speed limit signs recognition directly affects the safety of autonomous vehicles. Vehicles are usually running in an uncertain and dynamic environment. The performance of the recognition system is affected by various factors such as the different sizes of pictures, illumination condition and position circumstances, which can lead to misclassification. This makes the speed sign recognition challengeable. To improve the recognition rate of the speed signs in such environments, this work firstly applies the method of the saliency target detection based on the background-absorbing Markov chain, to extract the node in an image, then uses SPP-CNN to classify the extracted nodes with ten-folder validation. The recognition rate is up to 9.32%, higher than that obtained directly by SPP-CNN working on raw dataset.

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