Convolutional neural networks are the most widely used deep learning
algorithms for traffic signal classification till date but they fail to capture
pose, view, orientation of the images because of the intrinsic inability of max
pooling layer.This paper proposes a novel method for Traffic sign detection
using deep learning architecture called capsule networks that achieves
outstanding performance on the German traffic sign dataset.Capsule network
consists of capsules which are a group of neurons representing the
instantiating parameters of an object like the pose and orientation by using
the dynamic routing and route by agreement algorithms.unlike the previous
approaches of manual feature extraction,multiple deep neural networks with many
parameters,our method eliminates the manual effort and provides resistance to
the spatial variances.CNNs can be fooled easily using various adversary attacks
and capsule networks can overcome such attacks from the intruders and can offer
more reliability in traffic sign detection for autonomous vehicles.Capsule
network have achieved the state-of-the-art accuracy of 97.6% on German Traffic
Sign Recognition Benchmark dataset (GTSRB).