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In this paper, we propose a system that automatically detects and recognizes road signs found in the United States, in real time or close to real-time. The proposed system has application to intelligent autonomous unmanned vehicles for urban surveillance and rescue. It is a multi-layered hierarchical scheme composed of 3 parts: road sign color segmentation, shape recognition, and classification. The...