Vehicle color recognition using monocular camera

This paper introduces a novel moving vehicle color recognition method. By processing videos recorded by monocular camera on traffic, we get single color image of vehicles which are crossed the traffic in any direction. First, paper employed a H-S two dimension histogram method to detect the color of the vehicles, and distinguish red, yellow, green and blue four color vehicles. Due to deal with the vehicles that do not satisfy above 4 colors, Regional Color Judgment method is proposed. This method consists of the following five steps: Firstly, position the color detection region by identifying the travelling direction of the vehicle. Then pick out the candidate color extraction region used to vehicle recognition. At last extract the color of the candidate region and match the color with the templates we predefined, the color of the best fit template is the color of the vehicle.