TY - RPRT U1 - Forschungsbericht A1 - Valdenegro Toro, Matias Alejandro T1 - Fast Radial Symmetry Detection for Traffic Sign Recognition N2 - Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are technology systems and devices designed as an aid to the driver of a vehicle. One of the critical components of any ADAS is the traffic sign recognition module. For this module to achieve real-time performance, some preprocessing of input images must be done, which consists of a traffic sign detection (TSD) algorithm to reduce the possible hypothesis space. Performance of TSD algorithm is critical. One of the best algorithms used for TSD is the Radial Symmetry Detector (RSD), which can detect both Circular [7] and Polygonal traffic signs [5]. This algorithm runs in real-time on high end personal computers, but computational performance of must be improved in order to be able to run in real-time in embedded computer platforms. To improve the computational performance of the RSD, we propose a multiscale approach and the removal of a gaussian smoothing filter used in this algorithm. We evaluate the performance on both computation times, detection and false positive rates on a synthetic image dataset and on the german traffic sign detection benchmark [29]. We observed significant speedups compared to the original algorithm. Our Improved Radial Symmetry Detector is up to 5.8 times faster than the original on detecting Circles, up to 3.8 times faster on Triangle detection, 2.9 times faster on Square detection and 2.4 times faster on Octagon detection. All of this measurements were observed with better detection and false positive rates than the original RSD. When evaluated on the GTSDB, we observed smaller speedups, in the range of 1.6 to 2.3 times faster for Circle and Regular Polygon detection, but for Circle detection we observed a decreased detection rate than the original algorithm, while for Regular Polygon detection we always observed better detection rates. False positive rates were high, in the range of 80% to 90%. We conclude that our Improved Radial Symmetry Detector is a significant improvement of the Radial Symmetry Detector, both for Circle and Regular polygon detection. We expect that our improved algorithm will lead the way to obtain real-time traffic sign detection and recognition in embedded computer platforms. T3 - Technical Report / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Department of Computer Science - 04-2015 KW - traffic sign detection KW - traffic sign localization UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-15922 SN - 1869-5272 SS - 1869-5272 SN - 978-3-96043-023-0 SB - 978-3-96043-023-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-023-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-023-0 SP - 98 S1 - 98 ER -