Real time Image Recognition Based on low cost Processing Platform

Abstract

In this paper, the traffic sign recognition module of a small-scale autonomous car prototype will be presented. The process undergoing the choice of an appropriate algorithm, as well as the factors taken into consideration will be presented in the form of a case study. The current literature presents various ways of achieving the recognition of traffic signs, but most of them are computational expensive, or have difficulty in offering consistent results in conditions that are different from the prerecorded ones. Since the processing on the car is carried on an embedded platform from Nvidia (Jetson TX2), this study is based on the same board, the stream being captured with a low-cost webcam. Classical algorithms like SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features), SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) or ORB (Oriented fast and Rotated Brief) offer reliable results when the lighting condition between the reference image and the image obtained from the camera are similar. In our setup, the algorithms mentioned above start to behave badly in low light conditions. Therefore, this paper discusses the possibility of using Haar like features alongside a classifier for detecting traffic signs.