Chapter 2. Traffic Sign Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are so useful in computer vision that we are going to use one for another application, traffic sign detection for intelligent vehicles. We will also cover several important concepts of deep learning in this chapter and will get readers exposed to other popular frameworks and libraries for deep learning.

We continue our R deep learning journey with one of the core problems in self-driving cars, object recognition, and to be specific, traffic sign classification. To avoid accidents and ensure safety, robust traffic sign classification is critical to realizing driving autonomy. We will start with what self-driving cars are and what aspects deep learning is applied to. We will also discuss how deep learning stands out and becomes the state-of-the-art solution for object recognition in intelligent vehicles. With the background knowledge in mind, we'll get started with our project when we first conduct...