A vehicle light signal detection and recognition method, system, and computer program product include bounding, using a coarse attention module, one or more regions of an image of an automobile including at least one of a brake light and a signal light generated by automobile signals which include illuminated sections to generate one or more bounded region, removing, using a fine attention module, noise from the one or more bounded regions to generate one or more noise-free bounded regions, and identifying the at least one of the brake light and the signal light from the one or more noise-free bounded regions.