This conference paper was presented in the World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014; Hammamet; Tunisia; 17 January 2014 through 19 January 2014 [© 2014 IEEE] The conference paper's definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCCAIS.2014.6916605This paper presents a novel traffic sign recognition system which can aid in the development of Intelligent Speed Adaptation. This system is based on extracting the speed limit sign from the traffic scene by Circular Hough Transform (CHT) with the aid of colour and non-colour information of the traffic sign. The digits of the speed limit sign are then extracted and classified using SVM classifier which is trained for this purpose. In general, the system detects the prohibitory traffic sign in the first place, specifies whether the detected sign is a speed limit sign, and then determines the allowed speed in case the detected sign is a speed limit sign. The SVM classifier was trained with 270 images which were collected in different light conditions. To check the robustness of this system, it was tested against 210 images which contain 213 speed limit traffic sign and 288 Non- Speed limit signs. It was found that the accuracy of recognition was 98% which indicates clearly the high robustness targeted by this system.Publishe

No abstract

No abstract

In the recent years, reconstructing 3D liver and its vessels from abdominal CT volume images becomes an inevitable and necessary research field. In this paper, a method of 3D reconstruction of liver with its vessels has been implemented, which involves volume preprocessing, de-noising, segmentation, contouring, and combination of different modalities. An advanced liver segmentation algorithms have been proposed: the first one is a 2.5D method that utilizes automatic Slice Growing Method (SGM) to segment liver part of each slice of a data set. It takes advantage of curvature control of level set segmentation method to distinguish liver and adjacent organs. It is proved that the result of this proposed method is much better than simple 3D level set method in liver segmentation. In the case of liver vessel segmentation, we have proposed an improved smoothing method dedicate to 3D vascular volume which results from region growing segmentation method. The cooperation of region growing method and proposed smoothing method has been demonstrated the possibility of efficient vessel segmentation with very accurate results. And the results indicate that our method is suitable for anatomical studying and surgical planning.

No abstract