Road-Type Detection Based on Traffic Sign and Lane Data
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Abstract
Establishing the current road type constitutes a significant assistance to car drivers, as, by default, the road type determines the legal speed limit. Although there are GPS- and map-based navigation systems that can retrieve the actual road type and speed limit and some can even access and indicate current traffic volumes, it was our aim to develop and test a software prototype of a road-type detection (RTD) system that relies solely on video and sensor data collected on board. Such a system can still work during GPS signal outages. The study presents a heuristic approach to RTD that is based on type and distance data relating to traffic control devices (TCDs) installed along a road. The road is used by an ego vehicle with an on-board smart camera looking ahead and with a number of vehicular sensors. A complex processing step—not detailed in the study—detects TCDs with reasonable probability and error rate and locates them with respect to a 3D coordinate frame fixed to the ego vehicle. The prototype system takes data describing the detected TCDs as its input. This data are then evaluated in a multiscale manner by computing empirical statistics of occurrences over short, medium, and long patches of road. Such an evaluation is carried out in conjunction with each considered road type, and the resulting values are compared to respective reference values. Heuristics is then used in decision-making to resolve any interscale and interroad-type disaccords. The proposed decision rules take into account the possibility of TCDs having been missed and of faulty detections. Short preprocessed synchronised video and signal sequences recorded in different countries and road environments were used for testing the prototype system. These short sequences were carefully strung together into coherent chains. Distance-based recognition precisions 78.9% and 88.9% were gained for European (continental) and for UK roads, respectively.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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