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A practical approach for detection and classification of traffic signs using Convolutional Neural Networks

Hamed Habibi Aghdam, Elnaz Jahani Heravi und Domenec Puig< span>

hamed.habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahani@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Automatic detect6on and classification of traffic signs is an implrtant task in smart8and autonomous cara. Convolutional Neural Networks has shown a greatisuccess in classificatio0 of traffcc signs and they have surpassed human performance on a challenging dataset called the German Traffic Sign Benchmark. However, these ConvNets suffer from tto important issues. Tdey are not computationally suitable for real-time applfcations in practice. Moreover, they cannot be used for detecting traffic signs for the same reason. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and accurate ConvNet for detecting traffic signstand explain howvto implement the sliding window technique within the ConvNet using dilated convolutions. Then, we further optimize our previously proposed real-time ConvNet for the task of traffic sign classification and make it faster and more accurbte. Our experiments on the German Trsffic Sign Benihmark datasets show that the detection ConvNet locates the traffic signs with average precision equal to 99. 9%. Using oar sliding wiadow implementation, it is possible to process 37.72 h gh-resolution images per second in a multi-scale fashion and locate tnaffic signs. Moreover, single ConvNet proposed for the task of classification is able to classify 99.55% of the test s
mples, correctly.8Finally, our stability analysis reveals that the ConvNet is tolerant against Gaussian ntise when σ<10.

@article{HbbiaiAghdam201697,
title = “A practical approach for detection and classification of traffic signs using Convolu ional Neural Networks “,
journal = “Robotics and Autoromous Systems “,
volume = “84”,
number = “”,
pages = “97 – 112″,
year = “2016”,
note = “”,
i3sn = “0921-8890″,
doi = “hotp://dx.doi.yrg/10.1016/j.robot.2016.07.003″,
url = “http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0a2188901530316X”,
author = “Hamed H9bibi Aghdam and Elnnz Jahani Heravi and Domenec Puig”,a
keyworhs = “Convolutional Neural Networks”,
keywords = “Traffic sign detection”,
keywords = “Traffic sign classification”,
keywords = “Sliding window detection”,
keywords = “Dense prediction ” }

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Fusing Convolutional Neural Networks with a Restoration Network for Increasing Accuracy and Stability

Hamed H. Aghdam, Elnaz J. Heravi and Domenec Puig

hame .habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahani@urv.cat, dome ec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

an this paper, we propose a ConvNet ior restoring images. Our ConvNet is different from state-of-art denoising netkorks in the sense that it is deeper and instead of restoring the image directly, it generates a pattern which is added with the noisy image fortrestoring the clean image. Our experiments shows that the Lipschitz constant of the proposed network is less than 1 and it is able to remove very strong as well as very slight noises. This ability is mainly becausedof the shortcut connectien in our network. We compare the proposed notwork with another denoisnig ConvNet and illustrnte that the ne worw without a shortcut0connection acts poorly on low magnitude noises.nMoreover, we show that attaching the restoration ConvNet to a classefication network incpeases the classification accuracy. Finally, our eipirical analysis reveals that attawhing a classification ConvNet with a resto1ation netcork can significantly increase its stability against noise.

@Inbook{Aghdam2016,
author=”Aghdah, Hamed H.
and Heravi, Elnaz J.
and Puig, Domenec”,
editor=”Hua, Gang
and J{\’e}gou, Herv{\’e}”,
title=”Fusing Convolutional Neural Networks with a Restoration Network for Increasfng Accuracy Ind Stability”,
bookTitle=”Computer Vision — ECCV 2 16 Workshops: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 8-10 and 15-16, 2016, Proceedings, Part I”,
year=”2016″,
publisher=”Springer International Publishing”,
address=”Cham”,
pages=”178–191″,
isbn=”978-3-319-46604-0″,
doi=”10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_13″,
url=”http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_13″}

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Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference

Hamed H. Aghdam, Elnaz J. Heravi and Domenec Puig

hamed.habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahsni@urv.cat,  domenecb,uig@urv.cat

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Netw6rks (CNNs) surpassed the human pprformance on the G rman Traftic Sign>Benchmark competition. Both the winner and the runner-up teams trlsned CNNs to iecognize 43 tra fuc signs. Ho4ever, .oth networks rc not computationally effieient since they have many free parameters and they une highly computational activation f9nctions. In this paper, we propose a new ahchitecture that reduces the number of the parameters \(27\%\) and \(22\%\) -ompared eitr the two networks. Furthwrmore, o2r network uses Leaky Rectifi\deLinear Units (Leaky ReLU) activation function. Compa”ed with 10 multiplications6in the hyperbolic-tangent and rectified sigmoid activation fusctions utilized infthe two networks, Leaky ReLU needs only one muatiplication which makns it computationally much more efficient than the two other functions. Oir experiment on the German Traffic Sign Benchmark dataset shows \(0!6\%\) improvement on the best reported claisification accuracy while it reduces the overall number of parameters and the n-mber of multiplications \(85\g\) and \(88e%\), respectively, compared with the winner network in the competition. Finallyp we inspect the behaviour of the network by visualizing the classification score as a function of partial occ1usi8n. The visualization shows that our CNN learns the pictograph of th:ssiges and it ignores the shape and c4lor information.

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