scholarly journals Sea Surface Object Detection Algorithm Based on YOLO v4 Fused with Reverse Depthwise Separable Convolution (RDSC) for USV

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 753
Author(s):  
Tao Liu ◽  
Bo Pang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Wei Yang ◽  
Xiaoqiang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Original Number ◽  
Speed And Accuracy ◽  
Surface Object

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been extensively used in various dangerous maritime tasks. Vision-based sea surface object detection algorithms can improve the environment perception abilities of USVs. In recent years, the object detection algorithms based on neural networks have greatly enhanced the accuracy and speed of object detection. However, the balance between speed and accuracy is a difficulty in the application of object detection algorithms for USVs. Most of the existing object detection algorithms have limited performance when they are applied in the object detection technology for USVs. Therefore, a sea surface object detection algorithm based on You Only Look Once v4 (YOLO v4) was proposed. Reverse Depthwise Separable Convolution (RDSC) was developed and applied to the backbone network and feature fusion network of YOLO v4. The number of weights of the improved YOLO v4 is reduced by more than 40% compared with the original number. A large number of ablation experiments were conducted on the improved YOLO v4 in the sea ship dataset SeaShips and a buoy dataset SeaBuoys. The experimental results showed that the detection speed of the improved YOLO v4 increased by more than 20%, and mAP increased by 1.78% and 0.95%, respectively, in the two datasets. The improved YOLO v4 effectively improved the speed and accuracy in the sea surface object detection task. The improved YOLO v4 algorithm fused with RDSC has a smaller network size and better real-time performance. It can be easily applied in the hardware platforms with weak computing power and has shown great application potential in the sea surface object detection.

scholarly journals Dynamic Object Detection Algorithm Based on Lightweight Shared Feature Pyramid

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4610
Author(s):  
Li Zhu ◽  
Zihao Xie ◽  
Jing Luo ◽  
Yuhang Qi ◽  
Liman Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Dynamic Object ◽  
Shared Feature ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Adaptive Inference ◽  
Feature Pyramid

Current object detection algorithms perform inference on all samples at a fixed computational cost in the inference stage, which wastes computing resources and is not flexible. To solve this problem, a dynamic object detection algorithm based on a lightweight shared feature pyramid is proposed, which performs adaptive inference according to computing resources and the difficulty of samples, greatly improving the efficiency of inference. Specifically, a lightweight shared feature pyramid network and lightweight detection head is proposed to reduce the amount of computation and parameters in the feature fusion part and detection head of the dynamic object detection model. On the PASCAL VOC dataset, under the two conditions of “anytime prediction” and “budgeted batch object detection”, the performance, computation amount and parameter amount are better than the dynamic object detection models constructed by networks such as ResNet, DenseNet and MSDNet.

A dual U-Net algorithm for automating feature extraction from satellite imagery

2021 ◽  
pp. 154851292098354
Author(s):  
Samuel Humphries ◽  
Trevor Parker ◽  
Bryan Jonas ◽  
Bryan Adams ◽  
Nicholas J Clark
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Standard Product ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Road Intersections

Quick identification of building and roads is critical for execution of tactical US military operations in an urban environment. To this end, a gridded, referenced, satellite images of an objective, often referred to as a gridded reference graphic or GRG, has become a standard product developed during intelligence preparation of the environment. At present, operational units identify key infrastructure by hand through the work of individual intelligence officers. Recent advances in Convolutional Neural Networks, however, allows for this process to be streamlined through the use of object detection algorithms. In this paper, we describe an object detection algorithm designed to quickly identify and label both buildings and road intersections present in an image. Our work leverages both the U-Net architecture as well the SpaceNet data corpus to produce an algorithm that accurately identifies a large breadth of buildings and different types of roads. In addition to predicting buildings and roads, our model numerically labels each building by means of a contour finding algorithm. Most importantly, the dual U-Net model is capable of predicting buildings and roads on a diverse set of test images and using these predictions to produce clean GRGs.

scholarly journals Design of a Scalable and Fast YOLO for Edge-Computing Devices

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 6779
Author(s):  
Byung-Gil Han ◽  
Joon-Goo Lee ◽  
Kil-Taek Lim ◽  
Doo-Hyun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Accuracy Performance ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

With the increase in research cases of the application of a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection technology, studies on the light-weight CNN models that can be performed in real time on the edge-computing devices are also increasing. This paper proposed scalable convolutional blocks that can be easily designed CNN networks of You Only Look Once (YOLO) detector which have the balanced processing speed and accuracy of the target edge-computing devices considering different performances by exchanging the proposed blocks simply. The maximum number of kernels of the convolutional layer was determined through simple but intuitive speed comparison tests for three edge-computing devices to be considered. The scalable convolutional blocks were designed in consideration of the limited maximum number of kernels to detect objects in real time on these edge-computing devices. Three scalable and fast YOLO detectors (SF-YOLO) which designed using the proposed scalable convolutional blocks compared the processing speed and accuracy with several conventional light-weight YOLO detectors on the edge-computing devices. When compared with YOLOv3-tiny, SF-YOLO was seen to be 2 times faster than the previous processing speed but with the same accuracy as YOLOv3-tiny, and also, a 48% improved processing speed than the YOLOv3-tiny-PRN which is the processing speed improvement model. Also, even in the large SF-YOLO model that focuses on the accuracy performance, it achieved a 10% faster processing speed with better accuracy of 40.4% [email protected] in the MS COCO dataset than YOLOv4-tiny model.

scholarly journals DF-SSD: An Improved SSD Object Detection Algorithm Based on DenseNet and Feature Fusion

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 24344-24357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheping Zhai ◽  
Dingrong Shang ◽  
Shuhuan Wang ◽  
Susu Dong
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Algorithm

scholarly journals Water surface object detection using panoramic vision based on improved single-shot multibox detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aofeng Li ◽  
Xufang Zhu ◽  
Shuo He ◽  
Jiawei Xia
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Panoramic Vision ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Detection Effect ◽  
Surface Object ◽  
Improved Algorithm

AbstractIn view of the deficiencies in traditional visual water surface object detection, such as the existence of non-detection zones, failure to acquire global information, and deficiencies in a single-shot multibox detector (SSD) object detection algorithm such as remote detection and low detection precision of small objects, this study proposes a water surface object detection algorithm from panoramic vision based on an improved SSD. We reconstruct the backbone network for the SSD algorithm, replace VVG16 with a ResNet-50 network, and add five layers of feature extraction. More abundant semantic information of the shallow feature graph is obtained through a feature pyramid network structure with deconvolution. An experiment is conducted by building a water surface object dataset. Results showed the mean Average Precision (mAP) of the improved algorithm are increased by 4.03%, compared with the existing SSD detecting Algorithm. Improved algorithm can effectively improve the overall detection precision of water surface objects and enhance the detection effect of remote objects.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Object Detector Using a Combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture (MiniVGGNet) and Classic Object Detection Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmida Ismail ◽  
Siti Anom Ahmad ◽  
Azura Che Soh ◽  
Mohd Khair Hassan ◽  
Hazreen Haizi Harith
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Object Classification ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Sliding Windows ◽  
Detection Algorithms

The object detection system is a computer technology related to image processing and computer vision that detects instances of semantic objects of a certain class in digital images and videos. The system consists of two main processes, which are classification and detection. Once an object instance has been classified and detected, it is possible to obtain further information, including recognizes the specific instance, track the object over an image sequence and extract further information about the object and the scene. This paper presented an analysis performance of deep learning object detector by combining a deep learning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for object classification and applies classic object detection algorithms to devise our own deep learning object detector. MiniVGGNet is an architecture network used to train an object classification, and the data used for this purpose was collected from specific indoor environment building. For object detection, sliding windows and image pyramids were used to localize and detect objects at different locations, and non-maxima suppression (NMS) was used to obtain the final bounding box to localize the object location. Based on the experiment result, the percentage of classification accuracy of the network is 80% to 90% and the time for the system to detect the object is less than 15sec/frame. Experimental results show that there are reasonable and efficient to combine classic object detection method with a deep learning classification approach. The performance of this method can work in some specific use cases and effectively solving the problem of the inaccurate classification and detection of typical features.

Multiscale Feature Fusion-Based Object Detection Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 0215003
Author(s):  
张涛 Zhang Tao ◽  
张乐 Zhang Le
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Algorithm

An infrared object detection algorithm based on feature fusion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Meng ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
Yaoyuan Zeng ◽  
Wei An
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Detection Algorithm

Network size, structure, and pathogen transmission: a simulation study comparing different community detection algorithms

Behaviour ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 155 (7-9) ◽  
pp. 639-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey M. Sumner ◽  
Collin M. McCabe ◽  
Charles L. Nunn
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Pathogen Transmission ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

Abstract Social substructure can influence pathogen transmission. Modularity measures the degree of social contact within versus between “communities” in a network, with increasing modularity expected to reduce transmission opportunities. We investigated how social substructure scales with network size and disease transmission. Using small-scale primate social networks, we applied seven community detection algorithms to calculate modularity and subgroup cohesion, defined as individuals’ interactions within subgroups proportional to the network. We found larger networks were more modular with higher subgroup cohesion, but the association’s strength varied by community detection algorithm and substructure measure. These findings highlight the importance of choosing an appropriate community detection algorithm for the question of interest, and if not possible, using multiple algorithms. Disease transmission simulations revealed higher modularity and subgroup cohesion resulted in fewer infections, confirming that social substructure has epidemiological consequences. Increased subdivision in larger networks could reflect constrained time budgets or evolved defences against disease risk.

scholarly journals Uncertainty Evaluation of Object Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Peng ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Jun Li
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Confusion Matrix ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Complex Object ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Online Risk

AbstractThe safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) has become one of the hottest topics in the field of autonomous driving. However, no testing and evaluating system for SOTIF performance has been proposed yet. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework based on the advanced You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm and the mean Average Precision (mAP) method to evaluate the object detection performance of the camera under SOTIF-related scenarios. First, a dataset is established, which contains road images with extreme weather and adverse lighting conditions. Second, the Monte Carlo dropout (MCD) method is used to analyze the uncertainty of the algorithm and draw the uncertainty region of the predicted bounding box. Then, the confidence of the algorithm is calibrated based on uncertainty results so that the average confidence after calibration can better reflect the real accuracy. The uncertainty results and the calibrated confidence are proposed to be used for online risk identification. Finally, the confusion matrix is extended according to the several possible mistakes that the object detection algorithm may make, and then the mAP is calculated as an index for offline evaluation and comparison. This paper offers suggestions to apply the MCD method to complex object detection algorithms and to find the relationship between the uncertainty and the confidence of the algorithm. The experimental results verified by specific SOTIF scenarios proof the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed uncertainty acquisition approach for object detection algorithm, which provides potential practical implementation chance to address perceptual related SOTIF risk for autonomous vehicles.

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