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Robust detection method for improving small traffic sign recognition based on spatial pyramid pooling

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An extraordinary challenge for real-world applications is traffic sign recognition, which plays a crucial role in driver guidance. Traffic signals are very difficult to detect using an extremely precise, real-time approach in practical autonomous driving scenes. This article reviews several object detection methods, including Yolo V3 and Densenet, in conjunction with spatial pyramid pooling (SPP). The SPP principle is employed to boost the Yolo V3 and Densenet backbone networks to extract the features. Moreover, we adopt spatial pyramid pooling to learn object features more completely. These models are measured and compared with key measurement parameters such as average accuracy (mAP), working area size, detection time, and billion floating-point number (BFLOPS). Based on the experimental results, Yolo V3 SPP outperforms state-of-the-art systems. Specifically, Yolo V3 SPP obtains 87.8% accuracy for small (S) target, 98.0% for medium (M) target, and 98.6% for large target groups in the BTSD dataset. Our results have shown that Yolo V3 SPP obtains the highest total BFLOPS (66.111), and mAP (99.28%). Consequently, SPP upgrades the achievement of all experimental models.

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This paper is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. The nos are MOST-110-2927-I-324-50, MOST-110-2221-E-324-010, and MOST-109-2622-E-324 -004, Taiwan. Additionally, this study was partially funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program RISE Project ULTRACEPT under Grant 778062.

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  3. School of Creative Technologies, The University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP, UK

    Hui Yu

  4. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Münster, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Xiaoyi Jiang

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Dewi, C., Chen, RC., Yu, H. et al. Robust detection method for improving small traffic sign recognition based on spatial pyramid pooling. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 14, 8135–8152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-03584-0

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