CAFFNet: Channel Attention and Feature Fusion Network for Multi-target Traffic Sign Detection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Liu ◽  
Yurong Qian ◽  
Hua Li ◽  
Yongqiang Wang ◽  
Hao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection

Hardware Efficient Modified CNN Architecture for Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition

2021 ◽  
pp. 2250017
Author(s):  
Bhaumik Vaidya ◽  
Chirag Paunwala
Keyword(s):  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Field Calculation ◽  
Traffic Sign Recognition ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection

Traffic sign recognition is a vital part for any driver assistance system which can help in making complex driving decision based on the detected traffic signs. Traffic sign detection (TSD) is essential in adverse weather conditions or when the vehicle is being driven on the hilly roads. Traffic sign recognition is a complex computer vision problem as generally the signs occupy a very small portion of the entire image. A lot of research is going on to solve this issue accurately but still it has not been solved till the satisfactory performance. The goal of this paper is to propose a deep learning architecture which can be deployed on embedded platforms for driver assistant system with limited memory and computing resources without sacrificing on detection accuracy. The architecture uses various architectural modification to the well-known Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for object detection. It uses a trainable Color Transformer Network (CTN) with the existing CNN architecture for making the system invariant to illumination and light changes. The architecture uses feature fusion module for detecting small traffic signs accurately. In the proposed work, receptive field calculation is used for choosing the number of convolutional layer for prediction and the right scales for default bounding boxes. The architecture is deployed on Jetson Nano GPU Embedded development board for performance evaluation at the edge and it has been tested on well-known German Traffic Sign Detection Benchmark (GTSDB) and Tsinghua-Tencent 100k dataset. The architecture only requires 11 MB for storage which is almost ten times better than the previous architectures. The architecture has one sixth parameters than the best performing architecture and 50 times less floating point operations per second (FLOPs). The architecture achieves running time of 220[Formula: see text]ms on desktop GPU and 578 ms on Jetson Nano which is also better compared to other similar implementation. It also achieves comparable accuracy in terms of mean average precision (mAP) for both the datasets.

scholarly journals A Novel Neural Network Model for Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition under Extreme Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Haifeng Wan ◽  
Lei Gao ◽  
Manman Su ◽  
Qinglong You ◽  
Hui Qu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Traffic sign detection is extremely important in autonomous driving and transportation safety systems. However, the accurate detection of traffic signs remains challenging, especially under extreme conditions. This paper proposes a novel model called Traffic Sign Yolo (TS-Yolo) based on the convolutional neural network to improve the detection and recognition accuracy of traffic signs, especially under low visibility and extremely restricted vision conditions. A copy-and-paste data augmentation method was used to build a large number of new samples based on existing traffic-sign datasets. Based on You Only Look Once (YoloV5), the mixed depth-wise convolution (MixConv) was employed to mix different kernel sizes in a single convolution operation, so that different patterns with various resolutions can be captured. Furthermore, the attentional feature fusion (AFF) module was integrated to fuse the features based on attention from same-layer to cross-layer scenarios, including short and long skip connections, and even performing the initial fusion with itself. The experimental results demonstrated that, using the YoloV5 dataset with augmentation, the precision was 71.92, which was increased by 34.56 compared with the data without augmentation, and the mean average precision mAP_0.5 was 80.05, which was increased by 33.11 compared with the data without augmentation. When MixConv and AFF were applied to the TS-Yolo model, the precision was 74.53 and 2.61 higher than that with data augmentation only, and the value of mAP_0.5 was 83.73 and 3.68 higher than that based on the YoloV5 dataset with augmentation only. Overall, the performance of the proposed method was competitive with the latest traffic sign detection approaches.

Real-time method for traffic sign detection and recognition based on YOLOv3-tiny with multiscale feature extraction

2020 ◽  
pp. 095440702098055
Author(s):  
Zhenxin Yao ◽  
Xinping Song ◽  
Lu Zhao ◽  
Yanhang Yin
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Recognition Algorithm ◽  
Fusion Algorithm ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection ◽  
Detection And Recognition

As a part of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), the vehicle traffic sign detection and recognition system have been paid more attention by Intelligent transportation researchers, the traffic sign detection and recognition algorithm based on convolution neural network has great advantages in expansibility and robustness, but it still has great optimization space inaccuracy, computation and storage space. In this paper, we design a multiscale feature fusion algorithm for traffic sign detection and recognition. In order to improve the accuracy of the network, the gaussian distribution characteristics are used in the loss function. The training and analysis of two neural networks with different feature scales and YOLOv3-tiny were carried out on the Tsinghua-Tencent open traffic sign dataset. The experimental results show that the detection and recognition of the targets by networks with multiple feature scales have improved significantly, and the recall and accuracy are 95.32% and 93.13% respectively. Finally, the algorithm of traffic sign detection and recognition is verified on the NVIDIA Jetson Tx2 platform and delivers 28 fps outstanding performances.

scholarly journals Improved YOLO v5 with balanced feature pyramid and attention module for traffic sign detection

2022 ◽  
Vol 355 ◽  
pp. 03023
Author(s):  
Linfeng Jiang ◽  
Hui Liu ◽  
Hong Zhu ◽  
Guangjian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Automatic Driving ◽  
Computational Overhead ◽  
Pyramid Structure ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection

With the development of automatic driving technology, traffic sign detection has become a very important task. However, it is a challenging task because of the complex traffic sign scene and the small size of the target. In recent years, a number of convolutional neural network (CNN) based object detection methods have brought great progress to traffic sign detection. Considering the still high false detection rate, as well as the high time overhead and computational overhead, the effect is not satisfactory. Therefore, we employ lightweight network model YOLO v5 (You Only Look Once) as our work foundation. In this paper, we propose an improved YOLO v5 method by using balances feature pyramid structure and global context block to enhance the ability of feature fusion and feature extraction. To verify our proposed method, we have conducted a lot of comparative experiments on the challenging dataset Tsinghua-Tencent-100K (TT100K). The experimental results demonstrate that the [email protected] and [email protected]:0.95 are improved by 1.9% and 2.1%, respectively.

The Traffic Sign Detection Algorithm Based on Region of Interest Extraction and Double Filter

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongxian Yu ◽  
Jiatao Kang ◽  
Zaihui Cao ◽  
Neha Jain
Keyword(s):  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Light Filter ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Sign Detection ◽  
Traffic Sign Detection

In order to solve the current traffic sign detection technology due to the interference of various complex factors, it is difficult to effectively carry out the correct detection of traffic signs, and the robustness is weak, a traffic sign detection algorithm based on the region of interest extraction and double filter is designed.First, in order to reduce environmental interference, the input image is preprocessed to enhance the main color of each logo.Secondly, in order to improve the extraction ability Of Regions Of Interest, a Region Of Interest (ROI) detector based on Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) and Wave Equation (WE) was defined, and candidate Regions were selected through the ROI detector.Then, an effective HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradient) descriptor is introduced as the detection feature of traffic signs, and SVM (Support Vector Machine) is used to classify them into traffic signs or background.Finally, the context-aware filter and the traffic light filter are used to further identify the false traffic signs and improve the detection accuracy.In the GTSDB database, three kinds of traffic signs, which are indicative, prohibited and dangerous, are tested, and the results show that the proposed algorithm has higher detection accuracy and robustness compared with the current traffic sign recognition technology.

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