A road sign detection and the recognition for Driver Assistance Systems

This paper explores the effective approach of road sign detection and recognition for Driver Assistance Systems (DAS). In today's world road conditions drastically improved as compared with past decade. Express highways equipped with increased lane size made up with cement concrete. Obviously speed of the vehicle increased. So on driver point of view there might be chances of neglecting mandatory road sign while driving. This paper illustrates proposed system to help driver about the road sign detection to avoid road accidents. The automatic road-signs recognition is an important part of Driver Assisting Systems which helps driver to increase safety and driving comfort. In this paper an efficient approach for the detection and recognition of the road sign in the road and acquiring the traffic scene images from a moving vehicle is present. In this paper the road sign recognition system is to be divided into two parts, the first part is detection stage which is used to detect the signs from a whole image, and the second part is classification stage that classifies the detected sign in the first part into one of the reference signs which are presents in the dataset. In the detection module segments, the input image in a YCBCR colour space, and then it detects road signs by using the shape filtering method. The classification module present determines the type of detected road signs by using an artificial neural network (ANN). The extensive experimentation has shown that the proposed system approach is robust enough to detect and the recognize road signs under varying lighting, rotation and translation conditions.

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