Vehicle Color Recognition in The Surveillance with DeepConvolutional Neural Networks

Vehicle information extraction is the key means in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Color plays an important role in vehicle recognition. The main challenge of vehicle color recognition is to find the dominant color. In this paper, we propose a color recognition method using convolutional neural network. We train the classifier with the network structure ‘NIN’ to increase the classification accuracy. The experiments are validated on our dataset and extra data, which are collected from city surveillance equipment. The proposed method outperforms other competing color recognition methods.