An optimization on pictogram identification for the road-sign recognition task using SVMs

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-383

  Maldonado Bascon S ^a   Acevedo Rodriguez J ^a   Lafuente Arroyo, S ^a   Fernndez Caballero, A ^b,c   Lopez Ferreras F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INFORMÁTICA DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic traffic sign detection and recognition system (TSDRS); Classification; Road sign; Support vector machines (SVMs)

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROAD SIGNS; SIGN RECOGNITION; SPARSE METHODS; SUPPORT VECTOR; TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EID: 75749132725     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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