Geometry Preserving Active Polygon-Incorporated Sign Detection Algorithm

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Ai, Chengbo ^a   Tsai, Yichang ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset management; Automation; Detection; Geometry; Image processing; Traffic sign

Indexed keywords

ASSET MANAGEMENT; AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR DETECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

COMPUTATION SPEED; DETECTION ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FALSE NEGATIVE RATE; FALSE NEGATIVES; GENERALIZED HOUGH TRANSFORM; TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EID: 84945152296     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: 19435487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000422     Document Type: Article

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