Automatic Detection and Recognition of Text-Based Traffic Signs from images

Detection and recognition of texts in traffic signs has been widely studied and with the advance in image capture technology has helped to improve or to create new methods to achieve this issue. In this work, we presented a method for detection, segmentation and recognition of text-based traffic signs from images analyzing and processing techniques. The results show that the computational cost and accuracy rate considering the proposed approach are acceptable to real time applications, with an execution time under 0.5 seconds, with a hit rate of 94.38% in the plate detection, 83.42% in the character segmentation and 89.23 in the digit classification.

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