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Sensors 2012, 12, 6415-6433; doi:10.3390/s120506415 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Road Sign Recognition with Fuzzy Adaptive Pre-Processing Models Chien-Chuan Lin * and Ming-Shi Wang Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University Taiwan, No.1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan; E-Mail: mswang@.tw * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: n9893106@.tw; Tel.: +886-9-2635-8765; Fax: +886-6-2766-549. Received: 23 March 2012; in revised form: 8 May 2012 / Accepted: 9 May 2012 / Published: 15 May 2012 Abstract: A road sign recognition system based on adaptive image pre-processing models using two fuzzy inference schemes has been proposed. The first fuzzy inference scheme is to check the changes of the light illumination and rich red color of a frame image by the checking areas. The other is to check the variance of vehicle’s speed and angle of steering wheel to select an adaptive size and position of the detection area. The Adaboost classifier was employed to detect the road sign candidates from an image and the support vector machine technique was employed to recognize the content of the road sign candidates. The prohibitory and warning road traffic signs are the processing targets in this research. The detection rate in the detection phase is 97.42%. In the recognition phase, the recognition rate is 93.04%. The total accuracy rate of the system is 92.47%. For video sequences, the best accuracy rate is 90.54%