Traffic Sign Detection for Autonomous Driving at 1:10 Scale a YOLO Approach
摘要
This work focuses on the application of a model implementing YOLO (You Only Look Once) that can be applied to ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistence Systems) in order to improve the safety and autonomy of these systems. The validation of this model is oriented to the identification of traffic signs in images carried out in a 1:10 scale autonomous driving vehicle through the use of a camera, allowing the system to capture the vehicle environment in real time and process the images to detect relevant signs such as stop, left turn, right turn, dead center, and no entry. With this, a total of 3000 images were captured in different positions and angles of each of the signs, obtaining a Database of a total of 15000 images for a robust training. The training was carried out in different versions of YOLO in this case comparing the latest versions YOLO v11n which was designed to improve the speed of inference without compromising accuracy, and YOLO v8s a lightweight and compact version with high computational efficiency; in both cases we could see which has better performance in the training applied to sign detection. However, YOLOv11n showed a slight advantage in terms of speed of inference. Both models achieved identical metrics (mAP50-95 = 0.99, accuracy and recall = 1.00), however YOlOv11n shows a superior runtime efficiency with a total 120 ms latency per image compared to 447 ms for YOLOv8s.