Visual sign information extraction and identification by deformable models for intelligent vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 57-68

  De La Escalera, Arturo ^a   Armingol, José María ^a   Pastor, José Manuel ^a   Rodríguez, Francisco José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advance driver assistance systems (ADASs); Deformable models; Intelligent vehicles; Traffic sign recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ADVANCE DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS (ADASS); AUTOMATIC SYSTEM; DEFORMABLE MODELS; TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942750386     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2004.828173     Document Type: Article

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