We present a vehicle color classification method from outdoor vehicle images. Although the vehicle color recognition is important especially for the newest applications including ITS(intelligent transportation system), we have no significant previous ...
We present a vehicle color classification method from outdoor vehicle images. Although the vehicle color recognition is important especially for the newest applications including ITS(intelligent transportation system), we have no significant previous result at least to our knowledge. In this paper, first, we classify all the pixels of a vehicle image into seven vehicle color classes using Bayesian Maximum Likelihood method. Then, we construct the low dimensional feature vector, by using the histograms for the classes. As a final step, we use the SVM(support vector machine) method to classify these feature vectors into seven vehicle color classes: black, blue, green, red, silver, white and yellow. Our implementation result shows 92.74% of success rate for 700 outdoor vehicle images. And the classification speed was 36 times faster compared to the case of constructing the feature vectors in a brute-force way.