CURE-TSR: Challenging Unreal and Real Environments for Traffic Sign Recognition

As one of the research directions at OLIVES Lab @ Georgia Tech, we focus on the robustness of data-driven algorithms under diverse challenging conditions where trained models can possibly be depolyed. To achieve this goal, we introduced a large-sacle (>2M images) traffic sign recognition dataset (CURE-TSR) which is among the most comprehensive datasets with controlled synthetic challenging conditions. Traffic sign images in the CURE-TSR dataset were cropped from the CURE-TSD dataset, which includes around 1.7 million real-world and simulator images with more than 2 million traffic sign instances. Real-world images were obtained from the BelgiumTS video sequences and simulated images were generated with the Unreal Engine 4 game development tool.  Sign types include speed limit, goods vehicles, no overtaking, no stopping, no parking, stop, bicycle, hump, no left, no right, priority to, no entry, yield, and parking. Unreal and real sequences were processed with state-of-the-art visual effect software Adobe(c) After Effects to simulate challenging conditions, which include rain, snow, haze, shadow, darkness, brightness, blurriness, dirtiness, colorlessness, sensor and codec errors. Please refer to our GitHub page for code, papers, and more information.