Automatic detection of road traffic signs from natural scene images based on pixel vector and central projected shape feature

Considering the problem of automatic information acquisition in the field of intelligent transportation system (ITS), a new approach for detection of road traffic sign from natural scene images is proposed in this study. The adaptive colour segmentation based on pixel vector is firstly used to segment colour image into binary image and stand out traffic sign regions, which can reduce the influence of lighting conditions on image segmentation. Secondly, to improve the ability of shape identification during traffic sign detection, central projection transformation (CPT) is used to compute shape feature vectors of different candidate regions, and this shape feature is input to the probabilistic neural networks (PNN) to discriminate true traffic signs from candidates. The proposed approach is applied to many natural images. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect road traffic signs from natural scene images.

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