This deep learning project detects and recognises traffic signs on the road using Computer Vision. It is essentially an implementation of the CNN paper by Yoshua Bengio of Universite de Montreal. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.2745)

This project requires Python 2.7 and the following Python libraries installed:

• Keras 1.1.2 with Theano 0.8.2 (Backend)
• Scikit Learn 0.18
• Skimage 0.12.3
• Numpy 1.11.1
• Pandas 0.18.1
• OpenCV 2.4.11
• Matplotlib 1.5.1

The datasets are available in the following dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fzosssyyiw2ved/datasets.zip?dl=0

The downloaded 'datasets' folder must be put in the project folder first.

The following jupyter notebooks constitute the code:

• Data_Preparation.ipynb - Loads data from 'datasets' folder, if already downloaded.
• Data_Exploration.ipynb - Explores and analyzes the data.
• Data_Training_And_Testing.ipynb - Trains models and tests them against test set.
• Detect.ipynb - Combines detection and recognition to find traffic signs from images.

In a terminal or command window, navigate to the top-level project directory then move to /code/ directory and run the following command in this order:

• jupyter Data_Preparation.ipynb
• jupyter Data_Exploration.ipynb
• jupyter Data_Training_And_Testing.ipynb
• jupyter Detect.ipynb

The 'storage' folder stores the models and weights of the trained classifiers. It also stores the numpy arrays of the training and testing data.