Thai Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition for Driver Assistance

Nowadays, driver assistance systems are embedded with some expensive cars, but more importantly, those systems are not able to recognize Thai traffic signs. This paper proposes a Thai traffic sign detection and recognition system. The proposed system is implemented with two main processes: Thai traffic sign detection and recognition. For the former process, a cascade classifier trained with histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features is used to generate a trained model for a sign detector, and then Viola-Jones cascade detector is used to classify sign and non-sign objects of the input image. For the latter process, a linear support vector machine (SVM) learner trained with HOG features is used to generate the trained model for sign symbol recognition, and then a SVM class prediction is applied for recognizing the HOG features of the detected sign. Based on a real world data-set, the proposed system can correctly detectand recognize Thai traffic signs in near real time.