Xiujuan Wang¹, Yiqi Tian^1,*, Kangfeng Zheng², Chutong Liu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1949-1965, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042224

Abstract Rapid advancement of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and autonomous driving (AD) have shown the importance of accurate and efficient detection of traffic signs. However, certain drawbacks, such as balancing accuracy and real-time performance, hinder the deployment of traffic sign detection algorithms in ITS and AD domains. In this study, a novel traffic sign detection algorithm was proposed based on the bidirectional Res2Net architecture to achieve an improved balance between accuracy and speed. An enhanced backbone network module, called C2Net, which uses an upgraded bidirectional Res2Net, was introduced to mitigate information loss in the feature extraction process and to achieve information… More >

P. Kuppusamy^1,*, M. Sanjay¹, P. V. Deepashree¹, C. Iwendi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 445-466, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042675

Abstract The infrastructure and construction of roads are crucial for the economic and social development of a region, but traffic-related challenges like accidents and congestion persist. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have been used in road infrastructure and construction, particularly with the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Object detection in Computer Vision also plays a key role in improving road infrastructure and addressing traffic-related problems. This study aims to use You Only Look Once version 7 (YOLOv7), Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), the most optimized object-detection algorithm, to detect and identify traffic signs, and analyze effective combinations of adaptive… More >

Zeyu Zhang¹, Han Zhu¹, Wei Zhang¹, Zhiming Cai^2,*, Linkai Zhu², Zefeng Li²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1901-1917, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039395

Abstract With the rapid development of urban road traffic and the increasing number of vehicles, how to alleviate traffic congestion is one of the hot issues that need to be urgently addressed in building smart cities. Therefore, in this paper, a nonlinear multi-objective optimization model of urban intersection signal timing based on a Genetic Algorithm was constructed. Specifically, a typical urban intersection was selected as the research object, and drivers’ acceleration habits were taken into account. What’s more, the shortest average delay time, the least average number of stops, and the maximum capacity of the intersection were regarded as the optimization… More >

Qiang Luo¹, Wenbin Zheng^1,2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2227-2246, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.040195

Abstract In the field of traffic sign recognition, traffic signs usually occupy very small areas in the input image. Most object detection algorithms directly reduce the original image to a specific size for the input model during the detection process, which leads to the loss of small object information. Additionally, classification tasks are more sensitive to information loss than localization tasks. This paper proposes a novel traffic sign recognition approach, in which a lightweight pre-locator network and a refined classification network are incorporated. The pre-locator network locates the sub-regions of the traffic signs from the original image, and the refined classification… More >

Sara Khalid¹, Jamal Hussain Shah^1,*, Muhammad Sharif¹, Muhammad Rafiq², Gyu Sang Choi^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 861-879, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035595

Abstract Globally traffic signs are used by all countries for healthier traffic flow and to protect drivers and pedestrians. Consequently, traffic signs have been of great importance for every civilized country, which makes researchers give more focus on the automatic detection of traffic signs. Detecting these traffic signs is challenging due to being in the dark, far away, partially occluded, and affected by the lighting or the presence of similar objects. An innovative traffic sign detection method for red and blue signs in color images is proposed to resolve these issues. This technique aimed to devise an efficient, robust and accurate… More >

Kha Tu Huynh¹, Thi Phuong Linh Le¹, Muhammad Arif², Thien Khai Tran^3,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 401-418, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036981

Abstract To pursue the ideal of a safe high-tech society in a time when traffic accidents are frequent, the traffic signs detection system has become one of the necessary topics in recent years and in the future. The ultimate goal of this research is to identify and classify the types of traffic signs in a panoramic image. To accomplish this goal, the paper proposes a new model for traffic sign detection based on the Convolutional Neural Network for comprehensive traffic sign classification and Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) implementation for identifying and extracting signs in panoramic images. Data augmentation and… More >

Meng Zhang¹, Zhichao Zhou¹, Guifeng Zhao^1,*, Fangfang Wang^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 673-698, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021463

Abstract Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the finite element method (FEM) are used to investigate the wind-driven dynamic response of cantilever traffic signal support structures as a whole. By building a finite element model with the same scale as the actual structure and performing modal analysis, a preliminary understanding of the dynamic properties of the structure is obtained. Based on the two-way fluid-structure coupling calculation method, the wind vibration response of the structure under different incoming flow conditions is calculated, and the vibration characteristics of the structure are analyzed through the displacement time course data of the structure in the cross-wind… More >

P. Vigneshwaran^1,*, N. Prasath¹, M. Islabudeen², A. Arun¹, A. K. Sampath²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 1527-1543, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.028444

Abstract Traffic signs are basic security workplaces making the rounds, which expects a huge part in coordinating busy time gridlock direct, ensuring the prosperity of the road and dealing with the smooth segment of vehicles and individuals by walking, etc. As a segment of the clever transportation structure, the acknowledgment of traffic signs is basic for the driving assistance system, traffic sign upkeep, self-administering driving, and various spaces. There are different assessments turns out achieved for traffic sign acknowledgment in the world. However, most of the works are only for explicit arrangements of traffic signs, for example, beyond what many would… More >

Nagham A. Al-Madi^*, Adnan A. Hnaif

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 65-74, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.016730

Abstract Current traffic signals in Jordan suffer from severe congestion due to many factors, such as the considerable increase in the number of vehicles and the use of fixed timers, which still control existing traffic signals. This condition affects travel demand on the streets of Jordan. This study aims to improve an intelligent road traffic management system (IRTMS) derived from the human community-based genetic algorithm (HCBGA) to mitigate traffic signal congestion in Amman, Jordan’s capital city. The parameters considered for IRTMS are total time and waiting time, and fixed timers are still used for control. By contrast, the enhanced system, called… More >

Wei Sun^1,3,*, Hongji Du¹, Shoubai Nie^2,3, Xiaozheng He⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.1, pp. 147-161, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.03581

Abstract Traffic sign recognition (TSR), as a critical task to automated driving and driver assistance systems, is challenging due to the color fading, motion blur, and occlusion. Traditional methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) only use an end-layer feature as the input to TSR that requires massive data for network training. The computation-intensive network training process results in an inaccurate or delayed classification. Thereby, the current state-of-the-art methods have limited applications. This paper proposes a new TSR method integrating multi-layer feature and kernel extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier. The proposed method applies CNN to extract the multi-layer features of traffic… More >