Traffic sign recognition with convolutional neural network based on max pooling positions

Rongqiang Qian, Yong Yue, Frans Coenen, Bailing Zhang

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Abstract

Recognition of traffic signs is vary important in many applications such as in self-driving car/driverless car, traffic mapping and traffic surveillance. Recently, deep learning models demonstrated prominent representation capacity, and achieved outstanding performance in traffic sign recognition. In this paper, we propose a traffic sign recognition system by applying convolutional neural network (CNN). In comparison with previous methods which usually use CNN as feature extractor and multi-layer perception (MLP) as classifier, we proposed max pooling positions (MPPs) as an effective discriminative feature to predict category labels. Through extensive experiments, MPPs demonstrates the ideal characteristics of small inter-class variance and large intra-class variance. Moreover, with the German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB), outstanding performance has been achieved by using MPPs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC-FSKD 2016
EditorsJiayi Du, Chubo Liu, Kenli Li, Lipo Wang, Zhao Tong, Maozhen Li, Ning Xiong
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages578-582
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509040933
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Oct 2016
Event12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC-FSKD 2016 - Changsha, China
Duration: 13 Aug 201615 Aug 2016

Publication series

Name2016 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC-FSKD 2016

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC-FSKD 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period13/08/1615/08/16

Keywords

  • Advanced Driver Assistance
  • convolutional neural networks
  • deep learning
  • max pooling
  • traffic sign recognition

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