Robust method for road sign detection and recognition

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-223

  Piccioli, G ^a   De Micheli, E ^b   Parodi, P ^a   Campani, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Road sign recognition; Shape detection; Traffic automation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GROUND VEHICLES; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; ROADS AND STREETS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ROAD SIGN DETECTION; ROAD SIGN RECOGNITION; TRAFFIC AUTOMATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030122598     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-8856(95)01057-2     Document Type: Article

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