• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.61-64
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• 2024

As research on autonomous driving technology becomes more active, various studies on signal recognition of traffic lights are also being conducted. When recognizing traffic lights with different purposes and shapes, such as pedestrian traffic lights, vehicle-only traffic lights, and right-turn traffic lights, existing classification methods may cause misrecognition problems. Therefore, in this study, we studied a model that allows accurate signal recognition by subdividing the classification of signals according to the purpose and type of traffic lights. A signal recognition model was created by classifying traffic lights according to their shape and purpose into horizontal, vertical, right turn, etc., and by comparing them with the existing signal recognition model based on YOLOv5, it was confirmed that more correct and accurate recognition was possible.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2006

교통신호등 검출과 인식 시스템은 운전자에게 경고와 보조시스템으로 필요한 장치이다. 본 논문에서는 칼라 비젼시스템을 이용한 주행중 실시간 교통신호등의 검출과 인식법에 대해 제안하고 있다. 제안하는 방법은 크게 네 가지로 구분된다 유사색 환경에서도 신호등 빛 검출이 용이하도록 HSI 색 공간에서 채도와 밝기값의 차를 이용하여 신호등의 빛을 검출하는 신호등 검출, 신호등 외곽검출과 검출된 신호 빛을 바탕으로 교통신호등 외곽 후보영역 설정과 세 검출 결과를 토대로 교통신호등을 인식하는 부분이다. 주행중 영상을 비디오 카메라로 녹화하여 제안하는 방법에 적용하여 결과를 제시하였다. 녹화시 카메라의 줌기능을 이용하여 줌에 의한 입력 영상변화시에도 신호등을 검출 및 인식한 결과를 제시하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 교통 신호등 영역 검출을 포함한 교통 신호등 외곽 부분과 신호등 색을 자동으로 판별하여 사용자에게 알려주는 교통 신호등 자동 판별 시스템 구현을 제안하였다. 본 논문은 교통 신호등색을 정확하게 검출하기 위하여 교통 신호등색에 해당하는 파장 범위를 설정하고, 색상 성분을 분할하였다. 색상 성분을 통해 교통 신호등색(빨강 주황 녹색)을 검출하며 배경부분은 그레이 영상으로 변환한다. 다음으로 웨이브렛 변환 알고리즘을 사용하여 다양한 환경에서 신호등 영역을 검출할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한, 교통 신호등 인식 부분은 CBIR(Content-Based Image Retrieval)기반에서 캐니 에지 연산자와 허도로프 매칭 알고리즘의 특성을 적용한 인식 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 교통 신호등이 첨가되어 있는 조명, 배경 등이 다양한 영상을 대상으로 실험하며, 기존 알고리즘과 비교하여 제안 알고리즘의 성능이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1122-1129
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• 2015

This paper suggests a method of detecting traffic lights for vehicles by combining the HSV(hue saturation value) color model, morphometric characteristics, and location information appearing on consecutive images in daytime. In order to detect the traffic light, the color corresponding to the signal lights should be explored. It is difficult to detect traffic lights among colors of lights from buildings, taillight of cars, leaves, placards, etc. The proposed algorithm searches for the traffic lights from many candidates using morphometric characteristics and location information in consecutive images. The recognition process is divided into three steps. The first step is to detect candidates after converting RGB channel into HSV color model. The second step is to extract the boundaries between the housing of traffic lights and background by exploiting the assumption that the housing has lower brightness than the surrounding background. The last step is to recognize the signal light after eliminating the false candidates using morphometric characteristics and location information appearing on consecutive images. This paper demonstrates successful detection results of traffic lights from various images captured on the city roads.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2022

The vehicle motion in urban environment is determined by surrounding traffic flow, which cause understanding the flow to be a factor that dominantly affects the motion planning of the vehicle. The traffic flow in this urban environment is accessed using various urban infrastructure information. This paper represents a color recognition algorithm for traffic lights to perceive traffic condition which is a main information among various urban infrastructure information. Deep learning based vision open source realizes positions of traffic lights around the host vehicle. The data are processed to input data based on whether it exists on the route of ego vehicle. The colors of traffic lights are estimated through pixel values from the camera image. The proposed algorithm is validated in intersection situations with traffic lights on the test track. The results show that the proposed algorithm guarantees precise recognition on traffic lights associated with the ego vehicle path in urban intersection scenarios.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.132-142
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• 2014

근래에 고령운전자의 증가와 다양한 차량용 멀티미디어 기기의 등장으로 운전 중 운전자의 시각적 주의 결핍 및 분산되어 교통신호등 오인식으로 인해 교통사고가 증가하고 있는 상황이다. 이를 보완하기 위해 일반적인 교통신호등 검출연구들은 색상 임계치, 템플릿 매칭, 학습기 기반 등의 방안이 제시 되었으나 색상 임계치의 경우 시내 도로와 같이 복잡한 배경과 주위 환경변화에 강인하지 못하고, 야간 시간대의 경우 템플릿 및 학습기 기반의 검출방안의 경우 그 인식도가 떨어지는 문제점이 존재한다. 따라서 제안한 방안에서는 교통신호등의 구조적인 형태 정보(모양, 밝기, 대비, 색상 등)을 기반 한 시각적 주의 영역과 spot-lights 영역 검출을 통해 복잡한 시내 도로 환경에서 교통신호등을 검출하는 방안을 제안한다. 교통신호등은 운전자의 시인성을 높일 수 있는 위치에 설치되고 또한 구조적인 고유한 형태와 색상을 지니고 있는 특징들을 이용하여 교통신호등을 검출한다. 제안한 방안에서는 입력된 칼라영상에서 특징정보들 간의 다차원 가우시안 파라미드 영상들을 생성하고 각 영상들 간의 대비차이 계산하여 현저하게 두드러진 영역들을 검출하고, 밝기 영상에서 주위 영역과 현저하게 밝은 spot-lights 영역들을 검출한다. 그리고 검출된 두 영역들의 모양과 색상 분석을 통해 교통신호등을 검출한다. 제안한 방법을 다양한 시간대와 시내 도로에서 실험한 결과, 교통신호등 검출률은 83.2%이고 프레임 당 처리 시간은 0.68초이다. 이것을 통해 사후판독 기능이 차량 영상기록장치에 결합한 안전운전 지원시스템으로 제안한 방안이 유용하게 적용될 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2019

The self-driving cars identify appropriate navigation paths and obstacles to arrive at their destinations without human control. The autonomous cars are capable of sensing driving environments to improve driver and pedestrian safety by sharing with neighbor traffic infrastructure. In this paper, we have focused on pedestrian protection and have designed an improved localization algorithm to track mobile users on roads by interacting with smart traffic lights in vehicle environments. We developed smart traffic lights with the RSSI sensor and built the proposed method by improving the Kalman filter algorithm to localize mobile users accurately. We successfully evaluated the proposed algorithm to improve the mobile user localization with deployed five smart traffic lights.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a traffic light detection and recognition (TLDR) algorithm in the daytime. The proposed algorithm utilizes the color and shape information for the TLDR. At first, a traffic light is detected and recognized based on its shape information. Then, the color range of the detected traffic light is investigated in HSV color space. The input data of the proposed TLDR algorithm is the color image captured using the black box camera during driving. Our simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve a high detection and recognition performance for the images including traffic lights.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.34-52
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• 2019

This paper proposes an intelligent system performing an application with assistance of an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to control a traffic lights system. In our proposed systems, the traffic lights can be remotely controlled through the Internet. Based on IoT platform, the traffic conditions at different intersections of roads are collected and the traffic lights are controlled in a central manner. For the software part, the algorithm is designed based on the green wave theory to maximize the green bandwidth of arterial roads while addressing a challenging issue: the rapid changes of parameters including cycle time, splits, offset, non-fixed vehicles' velocities and traffic flow along arterial roads. The issue typically happens at some areas where the transportation system is not well organized like in Vietnam. For the hardware part, PLC S7-1200 are placed at the intersections for two purposes: to control traffic lights and to collect the parameters and transmit to a host machine at the operation center. For the communication part, the TCP/IP protocol can be done using a Profinet port embedded in the PLC. Some graphical user interface captures are also presented to illustrate the operation of our proposed system.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.214-224
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• 2016

This paper proposes an algorithm to effectively detect the traffic lights and recognize the traffic signals using a monocular camera mounted on the front windshield glass of a vehicle in day time. The algorithm consists of three main parts. The first part is to generate the candidates of a traffic light. After conversion of RGB color model into HSI and YCbCr color spaces, the regions considered as a traffic light are detected. For these regions, edge processing is applied to extract the borders of the traffic light. The second part is to divide the candidates into traffic lights and non-traffic lights using Haar-like features and Adaboost algorithm. The third part is to recognize the signals of the traffic light using a template matching. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm successfully detects the traffic lights and recognizes the traffic signals in real time in a variety of environments.