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DYNAMIC TRAFFIC SIGN BOARD DETECTION AND RECOGNITION USING SVM

CLASSIFIER AND EXHAUSTIVE TEMPLATE MATCHING - AN INTERACTIVE
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DYNAMIC TRAFFIC SIGN BOARD DETECTION AND

RECOGNITION USING SVM CLASSIFIER AND EXHAUSTIVE
TEMPLATE MATCHING - AN INTERACTIVE TEXT/SYMBOL TO
VOICE CONVERTER
ARPITHA B.R1 DIVYASHRE S2 SHEEMA S3

VICKNESH K4 ANAND KUMAR M5

1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Department of Computer Science Engineering, NIE Institute of Technology, Mysore

ABSTRACT
Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition is a driver support function which can be used to notify and
warn the driver which restrictions may be effective on the current stretch of road. Examples for such
regulations are „speed limit zones‟ or „no-overtaking‟ indications.In this paper dynamic approach for

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detecting and recognizing sign boards is presented. Genetic algorithm (Exhaustive template matching)
is used for detection and recognizing of road signs. SVM classifier is used to classify recognized road
signs.

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OCR algorithm.
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Keywords: Sign board detection, Exhaustive template matching, SVM classifier, Genetic algorithm,

Introduction
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There are certain rules that have been prepared
for the benefit of people and the idea of
preparing these rules is not that they should be
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Literature survey

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understood by the drivers, but it should also be
understood by the cyclists, pedestrians and other
Genetic algorithms are based on natural
selection discovered by Charles Darwin [1].

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people. It is essential to follow all the rules and They employ natural selection of fittest

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regulation and they are clearly listed here.
People are recommended that they should be
carefully observing all the rules and regulation
and it is effectual to be careful, considerate and
patient. These signs have got the very prominent
role to play in the traffic system and they are
made for the safety of people.
Road signs define a visual language that
can be interpreted by drivers. They represent the
current traffic situation on the road, show danger
and difficulties around the drivers, give them
warnings, and help them with their navigation
by providing useful information that makes
driving safe and convenient. Traffic signs
provide the driver various information for safe
and efficient navigation. Automatic recognition
individuals as optimization problem solver.
Optimization is performed through natural
exchange of genetic material between parents.
Offsprings are formed from parent genes.
Fitness of offsprings is evaluated. The fittest
individuals are allowed to breed only.
In machine learning, support vector
machinesare supervised learning models with
associatedlearning algorithms that analyze data
and recognize patterns, used for classification
and regression analysis. Color-based methods
search for inconsistencies in theinteractions
between object color and light color [2][3].
The road sign recognition system is not the
only subsystem in vision-based driver assistance
systems. There are several other subsystems,

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Which perform obstacle recognition, and the relationships among subsystems and their
environmental change detection, etc. Developing contribution to meeting a common goal.It
and integrating these subsystems to collect provides a framework for visualizing the
significant information in driving environments organizational and environmental factors that
is very important for improving traffic safety. operate on a system.
They hoped that the proposed DVM will be
helpful for designing various subsystems for Functional Requirements
functions [4]. A. Pre-processing Block
Pre-processing will load the image as well as
System Analysis
check contrast, brightness, and clarity. The
System analysis and design relates to shaping following figure shows flow of control in the
organizations, improving performance and pre-processing block.
achieving objectives for profitability and
growth. The emphasis is on systems in action,

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Fig. 1 Pre-processing block

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If these parameters are off from our desired cB. Image Processing and Recognition

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values for these, adjustments will be performed.
If the software cannot obtain the contrast or
brightness needed, it may not be able to identify
Pre-processing shall check contrast,
brightness, and clarity. This block shall make
sure the image is ready to have image processing

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if there is a sign in the image. done to it. After passing through this pre-
processing block, the image shall be ready to

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Fig. 2 Steps for Processing and Recognition
The application of processing algorithms shall allows for the system to identify exactly what
take the pre-processed image and find colours of sign is contained in the image that was
interest and look for shapes relating to the sign processed.
or signs we are searching for. This block shall
Non Functional Requirements:
find regions of interest on the image and these
 Thesoftware to be developed must detect
shall be further processed to obtain the type of
only road sign boards.
sign. This is done in the following block.
 The software to be developed must ignore
The classify sign block shall take the
all other objects except road sign boards.
regions of interest passed from the algorithms
 The software to be developed must
block. These regions shall be analysed and used
recognise the road signs correctly.
to compare to „templates‟ of known signs. This

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 The software to be developed must display
the road sign in textual format.
 The software to be developed must convert
the text output to voice output.
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Feature Based Detection:
In computer vision and image
processing the concept of feature detection
refers to methods that aim at computing
abstractions of image information and making
local decisions at every image point whether
there is an image feature of a given type at that
point or not. The resulting features will be
subsets of the image domain, often in the form
of isolated points, continuous curves or
connected regions.
Recognition and Classification:
The output of the detection stage is a list of
candidate objects that could be probable road
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System Design
Camera-based road sign recognition (RSR) is a
valuable tool for any drivers, particularly with
respect to signs indicating danger and speed
limits. It is able to recognise selected road signs,
identify their meaning and assist the driver in
adapting his or her driving style to the situation
and regulations.
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signs. This list is forwarded to the recognizer for
further evaluation, and then to the classifier to
decide whether the objects in the list are either
rejected objects or road signs, and in this case
the classifier responds with a sign code. The
classifier will make use of machine learning
technique called support vector machine (SVM)
to identify the candidate.
Implementation and results
In this experimental setup, a camera is mounted
inside a car. The video captured by the camera
consists of a number of frames depending on the
camera. For each frame a thread is created to
process it simultaneously. By which the system
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detects whether a road sign is present or not
using genetic algorithm (exhaustive template
matching). Any text or number present is
detected by optical character recognition
algorithm. Detected road sign is classified using
SVM classifier. The language used is c#.NET
framework 4.0 [5].
The system after recognizing the traffic signs it
displays the traffic sign in a picture box and a
text output is show on screen .The text is then
converted to voice output.
Applications and conclusion
The system acts as an advanced warning system,
intimating the driver on the traffic sign boards
present on the current stretch of road. This
system is one of the basic modules necessary for
the next generation of cars. These next
converted to voice. Our major motivation in this
project is to alert and give the road sign
information to the driver in time which saves
life.
References
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[2] C. Riess and E. Angelopoulou, “Scene
illumination as an indicator of image
manipulation,” Inf. Hiding , vol. 6387, pp. 66–
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[3] S. Gholap and P. K. Bora, “Illuminant colour
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