Design a stop-sign detector with classical methods (no ML)

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Design a stop-sign detector using a camera and classical computer-vision methods only — no machine learning. What cues and pipeline would you use, and what are the failure modes?

Detect a stop sign in a road scene — the situation a classical detector must handle using cues like its red color and octagonal shape.

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