Traffic Light Detection

This Octave/Matlab script can detect traffic light color analysing live stream. It is trained by few already described samples.

• Classification method: Logistic Regression
• Optimization: Gradient Descent

Note

• Written only for educational purposes
• Intentionally written in pure Matlab language, using only elementary arithmetic operations:

Training samples

Training efficiency

Run

Learn (optional)

• collect some training samples using bin/collectSamples.bat
• then put them to the respective directories under datasource/train/
• run learn.m script in Matlab/Octave

Test (optional)

• collect some test samples using bin/collectSamples.bat
• then put them to the respective directories under datasource/test/
• run check.m script

Detect

• open live stream using bin/startStream.bat
• run detect.m script

Requirements

• VLC
• Octave