Road-sign detection and recognition based on support vector machines

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 264-278

  Maldonado Bascón, Saturnino ^a,b   Lafuente Arroyo, Sergio ^b   Gil Jiménez, Pedro ^b   Gómez Moreno, Hilario ^a,b   López Ferreras, Francisco ^b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classification; Detection; Hue; Hue saturation intensity (HSI); Road sign; Support vector machines (SVMs)

Indexed keywords

DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; GAUSSIAN-KERNEL; HUE SATURATION INTENSITY (HSI); ROAD-SIGN DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249895541     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2007.895311     Document Type: Article

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