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Call for papers
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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Special Issue:

Machine Learning for Traffic Sign Recognition

Recognition of traffic signs is a challenging real-world problem
relevant for intelligent transportation systems. It is a
multi-category classification problem with unbalanced class
frequencies. Traffic signs show a wide range of variations between
classes in terms of color, shape, and the presence of pictograms or
text. However, there exist subsets of classes (e.g., speed limit
signs) that are very similar to each other. Further, the classifier
has to cope with large variations in visual appearances due to
illumination changes, partial occlusions, rotations, weather
conditions etc.

Although first commercial systems have reached the market and several
studies on sign recognition have been published, systematic
comparisons of different approaches are scarce.

The special issue focuses on unbiased evaluation of new and existing
methods from computer vision, machine learning, and related fields for
traffic sign recognition. Empirical evaluation should be based on
freely available benchmark data.

The special issue is organized in the context of the German Traffic
Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB), a competition at this year's IEEE
International Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IJCNN
2011). The GTSRB data is freely available from
http://benchmark.ini.rub.de, the final test data will be released in
August.


Important dates
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First submission deadline: January 11, 2012
Notification of first decision: March 15, 2012
Revision submission deadline: May 15, 2012
Notification of final decision: August 15, 2012
Final manuscript (camera ready) submission deadline: September 1, 2012

Submission
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Manuscripts should be submitted at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-its by selecting the manuscript type
`Special Issue on MLFTSR'.


Special issue editors
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Johannes Stallkamp, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Marc Schlipsing, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Jan Salmen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Christian Igel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Contact
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tsr-benchmark@ini.ruhr-uni-bochum.de