REAL-TIME TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION WITH RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE Waite, Sheldon This work describes an implementation of a system that recognizes tra c signs within an image or video frame. In addition it covers a brief history of automotive technology and the safety motivations for the technology presented here. An algo- rithm is presented that takes RGB image data, extracts relevant pixels, lters the image, labels prospective tra c signs and evaluates them against template tra c sign images. Furthermore a system is described that uses a Virtex 5 Xilinx FPGA and the EDK tool kit to create an embedded processor and a hardware IP periph- eral that together implement the algorithm. This implementation is shown to have positive results both in terms of timing performance and accuracy. M.S. in Computer Engineering, July 2012 Oruklu, Erdal 2012-07-12 2012-07 Thesis application/pdf islandora:9122 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2918 ECE / Electrical and Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access