Extracting Road Signs using the Color Information

In this paper, we propose a method to extract the road signs. Firstly, the grabbed image is converted into the HSV color space to detect the road signs. Secondly, the morphological operations are used to reduce noise. Finally, extract the road sign using the geometric property. The feature extraction of road sign is done by using the color information. The proposed method has been tested for the real situations. From the experimental results, it is seen that the proposed method can extract the road sign features effectively.

Authors:

• Wen-Yen Wu
• Tsung-Cheng Hsieh
• Ching-Sung Lai

Keywords:

• Color information
• image processing
• road sign.

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