read the road sign in the image in matlab

To read the road sign in the image with MATLAB, the following steps can be taken:

  1. Load the image using imread function
  2. Preprocess the image by converting it to grayscale and applying some filters to enhance the features of the sign.
  3. Use computer vision techniques such as edge detection, image binarization, and morphological operations to extract the sign from the background.
  4. Apply OCR (Optical Character Recognition) techniques to recognize the text in the sign using machine learning models.
  5. Display the recognized text on the original image.

Here's some sample code to perform the above steps:

main.m
% Load the image
img = imread('road_sign.jpg');

% Convert the image to grayscale
grayImg = rgb2gray(img);

% Apply Median Filter and Contrast adjustment to enhance features
medImg = medfilt2(grayImg, [5 5]);
adjImg = imadjust(medImg);

% Apply Canny edge detection
edgeImg = edge(adjImg, 'Canny');

% Perform morphological operations to extract the sign from the background
se = strel('disk',5);
dilatedImg = imdilate(edgeImg,se);
filledImg = imfill(dilatedImg,'holes');
maskedImg = filledImg & ~edgeImg;

% Recognize the text in the sign
ocrtxt = ocr(maskedImg);

% Display the text on the original image
figure, imshow(img), title('Original Image');
hold on
text(ocrtxt.WordBoundingBoxes(:,1),ocrtxt.WordBoundingBoxes(:,2),...
    ocrtxt.Words,'BackgroundColor',[.7 .9 .7]);
hold off
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