Building road-sign classifiers using a trainable similarity measure

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-321

  Paclík, Pavel ^b   Novovičová, Jana ^c,d   Duin, Robert P W ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Classifier system design; Road sign classification; Similarity data representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLASSIFIER SYSTEM DESIGN; NONSIGN REJECTION CAPABILITY; ROAD SIGN CLASSIFICATION; SIMILARITY DATA REPRESENTATION;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EID: 33748621220     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2006.880627     Document Type: Article

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