Vision-based detection of car turn signals (left/right).

Nowadays in India, due to the increase in the number of accidents vehicles are being automated using a variety of Computer vision algorithms. This paper focuses on the detection of tail signals of cars under different illumination circumstances. This system is implemented using FAST and SIFT algorithm which helps to extract features from the images. The obtained features were optimized by using K-Means Clustering Algorithm. This huge feature vector is converted into 8 clusters. These optimized feature vectors were trained on five different classifiers as Decision Tree, SVM(RBF), Random Forest, and Voting Classifier. The trained data set used in this algorithm contains around 9052 images. The obtained accuracy results of different classifiers are as follows, Decision tress has 76.36%, SVM(RBF) has 77.91%, Random Forest has 87.52%, KNN has 89.72%, the Voting classifier has 86.52%. It is observed that KNN gives the highest accuracy among the five used classifiers. This has, to the best of the authors' knowledge, not been presented in literature before. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]