Pedestrian Buddies is an embedded computer vision project that integrates traffic signals with crossing-guard gesture recognition.
The goal is to make intersections safer by automatically interpreting a guard’s hand signals and controlling lights in real time.
- Real-Time Gesture Recognition (~30 FPS on edge hardware).
- Traffic Signal Integration — triggers stop/go based on detected gestures.
- Robust Model — tuned for variable lighting and occlusion.
- Edge Deployment — optimized for Raspberry Pi / microcontroller-class devices.
- TensorFlow Lite, Keras
- Python
- OpenCV
- Arduino (or equivalent edge hardware)