In this paper, we propose a high-performance traffic sign recognition (TSR) framework to rapidly detect and recognize multiclass traffic signs in high-resolution images. This framework includes three parts: a novel region-of-interest (ROI) extraction method called the high-contrast region extraction (HCRE), the split-flow cascade tree detector (SFC-tree detector), and a rapid occlusion-robust traffic sign classification method based on the extended sparse representation classification (ESRC). Unlike the color-thresholding or extreme region extraction methods used by previous ROI methods, the ROI extraction method of the HCRE is designed to extract ROI with high local contrast, which can keep a good balance of the detection rate and the extraction rate. The SFC-tree detector can detect a large number of different types of traffic signs in high-resolution images quickly. The traffic sign classification method based on the ESRC is designed to classify traffic signs with partial occlusion. Instead of solving the sparse representation problem using an overcomplete dictionary, the classification method based on the ESRC utilizes a content dictionary and an occlusion dictionary to sparsely represent traffic signs, which can largely reduce the dictionary size in the occlusion-robust dictionaries and achieve high accuracy. The experiments demonstrate the advantage of the proposed approach, and our TSR framework can rapidly detect and recognize multiclass traffic signs with high accuracy.


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    Title :

    Fast Traffic Sign Recognition via High-Contrast Region Extraction and Extended Sparse Representation


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    Publication date :

    2016-01-01


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    1817993 byte




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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