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Determining the optimal parameters for a given detection algorithm is not straightforward and what ends up as the final values is mostly based on experience and heuristics. In this paper we investigate the influence of three basic parameters in the widely used Aggregate Channel Features (ACF) object detector applied for traffic light detection. Additionally, we perform an exhaustive search for the optimal parameters for the night time data from the LISA Traffic Light Dataset. The optimized detector reaches an Area-Under-Curve of 66.63% on calculated precision-recall curve.
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Jensen, M.B., Philipsen, M.P., Moeslund, T.B., Trivedi, M. (2016). Comprehensive Parameter Sweep for Learning-Based Detector on Traffic Lights. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50832-0_10
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