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Finally, this article proposes an improved S-RFB to add contextual feature information to the network, further enhancing the accuracy of traffic sign detection.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The method in this paper is tested on the CCTSDB dataset and the Tsinghua-Tencent 100K dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the original YOLOv4-tiny in traffic sign detection with 3.76% and 7.37% improvement in mAP, respectively, and 21% reduction in the number of parameters. 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