—As an important feature of vehicle, vehicle color
plays a significant role in Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Traditional vehicle color recognition using experience-based
artificial demarcation of threshold and voting method to
identify, can’t meet the requirements of the recognition rate in
complex environments of video traffic and subdivision of
vehicle color. In this paper, we present a method inspired on
vector matching of template and a color normalization
operator for video pretreatment, and then select HSI color
space and Relative error distance matching algorithm. After
experimental analysis, we compare our method with various
common parameters in color recognition in order to get
optimal results. Experimental results show that our method
obtains a higher recognition rate in a variety of external
environment and multi-color classification.