recognition stage for a speed supervisor based on road sign detection识别阶段速度主管根据路标检测.pdfVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 12153-12168; doi:10.3390/s120912153 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Recognition Stage for a Speed Supervisor Based on Road Sign Detection Juan-Pablo Carrasco, Arturo de la Escalera * and José María Armingol Intelligent Systems Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganes, Spain; E-Mails: juanpa@ing.uc3m.es (J.-P.C.); armingol@ing.uc3m.es (J.M.A.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: escalera@ing.uc3m.es; Tel./Fax: +34-916-249-480. Received: 23 July 2012; in revised form: 30 August 2012 / Accepted: 31 August 2012 / Published: 5 September 2012 Abstract: Traffic accidents are still one of the main health problems in the World. A number of measures have been applied in order to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in roads, i.e., implementation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) based on image processing. In this paper, a real time speed supervisor based on road sign recognition that can work both in urban and non-urban environments is presented. The system is able to recognize 135 road signs, belonging to the danger, yield, prohibition obligation and indication types, and sends warning messages to the driver upon the combination of two pieces of information: the current speed of the car and the road sign symbol. The core of this paper is the comparis