arXiv AI

RIECNN: Real-Time Image Enhanced CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition

arXiv AI
Jul 28

Multi-model approach for autonomous driving: A comprehensive study on traffic sign-, vehicle- and lane detection and behavioral cloning

arXiv:2603. 09255v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning and computer vision techniques have become increasingly important in the development of self-driving cars.

By Kanishkha Jaisankar, Pranav M. Pawar, Diana Susan Joseph, Raja Muthalagu, Mithun Mukherjee, Dnyaneshawar Mantri, Ramjee Prasad
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Traffic Sign Recognition for Autonomous Driving Using Branched YOLOv2 and Geometric Features

The paper presents a traffic sign recognition system that extends YOLOv2 with a branched architecture and geometric feature integration. By adding intermediate prediction layers, the model can terminate inference early for easy cases, reducing computation time, while unsupervised Bayesian segmentation supplies geometric templates to improve classification of visually similar signs. Experiments on a combined GTSDB/GTSRB dataset show that the branched model achieves 0.680 mAP in 0.647 s, and adding geometric verification during inference raises mAP to 0.713.

By Arefeh Rezaei
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Distilling Vision-Language Models for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, including shadow perturbations, natural-light interference, and printed patches.

By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv AI
Sep 24

SMDDFNet: State-space Modeling and Dynamic Dual Fusion Network for Traffic Sign Detection

SMDDFNet is a deep learning detector designed for traffic sign images, addressing challenges such as small objects, scale variation, and occlusion. It combines a Dynamic Dual Fusion (DDF) module—integrating multi-scale attention and frequency‑domain dynamic filtering—with a state‑space modeling backbone that captures long‑range dependencies efficiently. A multi‑scale feature fusion neck further aggregates pyramid features, enabling robust localization of small signs while maintaining real‑time throughput on datasets like TT100K, GTSDB, PASCAL VOC, and Roboflow.

By TianYi Yu, DaJian Zhong, Lilin Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

SignMatch: Matching Dictionary Signs to Continuous Sign Language Video

SignMatch introduces a prototype‑structured embedding space that learns to match dictionary sign videos with continuous sign language footage based solely on visual similarity of handshape and motion. By mapping isolated dictionary exemplars into this space, the method enables direct, embedding‑based sign matching and can generalise to unseen signs using only dictionary examples. Experiments on ASL‑Citizen, ChaLearn OSLWL, and BOBSL CSLR2 benchmarks show strong cross‑dataset, cross‑task, and cross‑language performance, outperforming prior approaches on American, British, and Spanish sign languages without benchmark‑specific supervision.

By Ryan Wong, Youngjoon Jang, Liliane Momeni, G\"ul Varol, Andrew Zisserman