Detection of Traffic Signs in Image and Video

This thesis deals with the traffic sign detection problematics using modern techniques in image processing. Special architecture of deep convolutional neural network YOLO, i.e. You Only Look Once, which performs both detection and classification in one step, has been used. This architecture allows object detector to work on very high speeds. This thesis also deals with comparison of models trained on real and synthetic datasets. The best model trained on real dataset has reached 63.4% mAP success rate and 82.3% mAP when trained on synthetic dataset. Evaluation of one image takes about ~40.4ms on average graphics processing unit and ~3.9ms on higher than average graphics processing unit. The benefit of this thesis is that under certain conditions neural network model trained on synthetic data can achieve same or even better results than model trained on real data. This may simplify process of object detector development since it is not necessary to annotate large number of images