Optimizing Deep Learning with Swarm Intelligence for Enhanced Visual Perception of Traffic Sign Recognition
摘要
Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) is one of the crucial steps for enabling self-driving vehicles to analyze the sign boards and take necessary decisions to enhance road safety and navigation. This paper implements multiple deep learning (DL) architectures and optimizes their hyperparameters using swarm intelligence, namely Firefly optimization. To improve recognition performance, images undergo initial pre-processing, including resizing and grayscale conversion. These refined images are then represented as matrix structures to serve as inputs for various deep learning architectures. The proposed framework is tested on two datasets: i.) Chinese Traffic Sign Dataset (CHSTD) and ii.) German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB). The performance analysis on benchmark datasets indicates that the CNN outperforms other DL architectures by achieving an average accuracy of 96.67%, 92.85% and an F1-Score of 96.32%, 92.82% on CHSTD and GTSRB, respectively. These results highlight the supremacy of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as the leading approach for TSR. This research work underscores that a synergistic combination of deep learning, advanced preprocessing, and Firefly-driven feature optimization can enhance the navigation capabilities of autonomous vehicles.