Abstract-This paper presents an automatic road-sign detection and recognition system based on support vector machines (SVMs). In automatic traffic-sign maintenance and in a visual driverassistance system, road-sign detection and recognition are two of the most important functions. Our system is able to detect and recognize circular, rectangular, triangular, and octagonal signs and, hence, covers all existing Spanish traffic-sign shapes. Road signs provide drivers important information and help them to drive more safely and more easily by guiding and warning them and thus regulating their actions. The proposed recognition system is based on the generalization properties of SVMs. The system consists of three stages: 1) segmentation according to the color of the pixel; 2) traffic-sign detection by shape classification using linear SVMs; and 3) content recognition based on Gaussian-kernel SVMs. Because of the used segmentation stage by red, blue, yellow, white, or combinations of these colors, all traffic signs can be detected, and some of them can be detected by several colors. Results show a high success rate and a very low amount of false positives in the final recognition stage. From these results, we can conclude that the proposed algorithm is invariant to translation, rotation, scale, and, in many situations, even to partial occlusions.

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Abstract. In this paper, a new method for edge detection in presence of impulsive noise based into the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) is presented. This method shows how the SVM can detect edge in an efficient way. The noisy images are processed in two ways, first reducing the noise by using the SVM regression and then performing the classification using the SVM classification. The results presented show that this method is better than the classical ones when the images are affected by impulsive noise and, besides, it is well suited when the images are not noisy.

Abstract. In this paper, a new algorithm for traffic sign recognition is presented. It is based on a shape detection algorithm that classifies the shape of the content of a sign using the capabilities of a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Basically, the algorithm extracts the shape inside a traffic sign, computes the projection of this shape and classifies it into one of the shapes previously trained with the SVM. The most important advances of the algorithm is its robustness against image rotation and scaling due to camera projections, and its good performance over images with different levels of illumination. This work is part of a traffic sign detection and recognition system, and in this paper we will focus solely on the recognition step.

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