Otomatik sürüş için derin öğrenme metodu kullanarak trafik işaretlerinin tespiti

Abstract

Deep learning practices used in many fields, in particular, in health, military, economy, and production industries, are an important area of artificial intelligence in our age. The object classification and object recognition applications, which play a significant role in the development of autonomous vehicle technologies, constitute the focal point of the deep learning studies. It is clear that the recent studies based on the deep learning models show that they are useful and successful performances for safe driving not only for vehicles but also for pedestrians. It is very crucial and significant that the autonomous systems recognize the traffic signs with high accuracy for a safe driving. Especially, the pedestrian crossing, school district, urban speed limits can be regarded among the most critical traffic signs. In this study, we have used the data set including the traffic signs obtained by our own means to carry out trainings by using faster R-CNN which is regarded as one of the most important recognition architectures. Thanks to the hardware module produced as a result of the operation, we have developed a system that warns the driver of the vehicle with audible warning. The developed hardware module can detect not only the speed limits, traffic signs but also pedestrian crossings and school districts and alert the driver in reel-time. The developed hardware module is based on Arduino and because of the GPS sensor, it can also show the speed of the vehicle. Moreover, we have used Python for the developed software and the dataset trainings have been carried out by using the Tensorflow library. We think that the study will contribute a lot to the recognition of traffic signs for the autonomous vehicle applications.