System and methods for car color detection using car make logo detection

A method for detecting a color of a vehicle using vehicle logo detection, the method comprising:

• acquiring an image including the vehicle;
• detecting a logo of the vehicle in the image and extracting a first bounding box including the logo of the vehicle;
• extracting a second bounding box to include at least a portion of a body of the vehicle by expanding the first bounding box based on a horizontal axis;
• cropping the portion of the body in the second bounding box, extracting a dominant color of the body of the vehicle from the cropped portion of the body, and comparing the extracted dominant color with color reference classes;
• and
• determining that a reference color closest to the dominant color in the color reference classes is the color of the vehicle,
• wherein the method further comprises:
• storing mapping information between the logo of the vehicle and the acquired color of the vehicle in a cache memory of a surveillance camera, and
• acquiring color information of the vehicle using the cached mapping information for different vehicles of a same vehicle model.