The application for this Traffic Police Hand Gesture Recognition system is to use Tensor Flow's MoveNet Thunder model in autonomous vehicle navigation. The system recognizes gestures commonly used by traffic police in India - ‘Stop’, ‘Turn Left’, ‘Move Forward’. We used a custom dataset of 8,000 images of gestures and environmental conditions. High accuracy is achieved with low over fitting using the architecture of neural network by using the dense and dropout layers. Indeed, Haar cascades for real time face detection make sure the gestures are processed only when the traffic officer is facing the camera. Minor misclassification is seen in some similar gestures and the model is accurate to 89%. Its robustness is underscored through validation through the Carla simulator, under different lighting and weather conditions. The approach put forward is boding well as a means to integrating gesture recognition into autonomous vehicles as a complement to safer driving in traffic-managed scenarios.
Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Traffic Police Hand Gesture Recognition for Self Driving Cars in India Using MoveNet Thunder
2025-01-07
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Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TRAFFIC CONTROL
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