Traffic Signs Detection System Using YOLO (You Only Look Once) That Provides Notification

Road accidents have become a problem for many road users in many countries. It may affect human daily activity and tasks, potentially influencing productivity and safety. Therefore, reducing road accidents as swiftly and effectively as possible is critical. For this reason, a Traffic signs detection system has been developed in this work to improve road safety. The detection system can detect traffic signs on the road such as traffic lights, speed limits, and no U-turn signs, and then it will provide users with the corresponding text on an LCD and vibration feedback using a motor. Throughout this work, the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm is proposed for detecting traffic signs on the road. Moreover, a camera is used to extract live videos which serve as an input for the Raspberry Pi 4 model B containing custom YOLOv5 and YOLOv8 models. The system then sends the output to an LCD, a vibration motor, and a radio frequency (RF) module as notifications for users. In the end, the performance of the proposed method has been collected and it is found to produce good accuracy within an inconsiderable amount of 1.677 images and 2.263 annotations. Therefore, the accuracy of 0.69 for YOLOv5 and 0.7 for YOLOv8 were obtained from the training and validation process. Furthermore, the system accurately detects the traffic signs on the road.