Traffic light detection with color and edge information

Author

Omachi, Masako ; Omachi, Shinichiro

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Tohoku Bunka Gakuen Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

8-11 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

287

Abstract

The concern of the intelligent transportation system rises and many driver support systems have been developed. In this paper, a fast method of detecting a traffic light in a scene image is proposed. By converting the color space from RGB to normalized RGB, some regions are selected as candidates of a traffic light. Then a method based on the Hough transform is applied to detect an exact region. Experimental results using images including a traffic light verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

Hough transforms; driver information systems; edge detection; image colour analysis; lightning; Hough transform; color information; driver support system; edge information; intelligent transportation system; scene image; traffic light detection; Histograms; Image edge detection; Intelligent transportation systems; Layout; Object detection; Roads; Robustness; Shape; Traffic control; Voting; Hough transform; driver support system; image recognition; intelligent transportation system; traffic light;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009. 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4519-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234518

Filename

5234518