scholarly journals Vehicle Logo Recognition Based on Enhanced Matching for Small Objects, Constrained Region and SSFPD Network

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruikang Liu ◽  
Qing Han ◽  
Weidong Min ◽  
Linghua Zhou ◽  
Jianqiang Xu

Vehicle Logo Recognition (VLR) is an important part of vehicle behavior analysis and can provide supplementary information for vehicle identification, which is an essential research topic in robotic systems. However, the inaccurate extraction of vehicle logo candidate regions will affect the accuracy of logo recognition. Additionally, the existing methods have low recognition rate for most small vehicle logos and poor performance under complicated environments. A VLR method based on enhanced matching, constrained region extraction and SSFPD network is proposed in this paper to solve the aforementioned problems. A constrained region extraction method based on segmentation of the car head and car tail is proposed to accurately extract the candidate region of logo. An enhanced matching method is proposed to improve the detection performance of small objects, which augment each of training images by copy-pasting small objects many times in the unconstrained region. A single deep neural network based on a reduced ResNeXt model and Feature Pyramid Networks is proposed in this paper, which is named as Single Shot Feature Pyramid Detector (SSFPD). The SSFPD uses the reduced ResNeXt to improve classification performance of the network and retain more detailed information for small-sized vehicle logo detection. Additionally, it uses the Feature Pyramid Networks module to bring in more semantic context information to build several high-level semantic feature maps, which effectively improves recognition performance. Extensive evaluations have been made on self-collected and public vehicle logo datasets. The proposed method achieved 93.79% accuracy on the Common Vehicle Logos Dataset and 99.52% accuracy on another public dataset, respectively, outperforming the existing methods.

Author(s):  
Zhenying Xu ◽  
Ziqian Wu ◽  
Wei Fan

Defect detection of electromagnetic luminescence (EL) cells is the core step in the production and preparation of solar cell modules to ensure conversion efficiency and long service life of batteries. However, due to the lack of feature extraction capability for small feature defects, the traditional single shot multibox detector (SSD) algorithm performs not well in EL defect detection with high accuracy. Consequently, an improved SSD algorithm with modification in feature fusion in the framework of deep learning is proposed to improve the recognition rate of EL multi-class defects. A dataset containing images with four different types of defects through rotation, denoising, and binarization is established for the EL. The proposed algorithm can greatly improve the detection accuracy of the small-scale defect with the idea of feature pyramid networks. An experimental study on the detection of the EL defects shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, a comparison study shows the proposed method outperforms other traditional detection methods, such as the SIFT, Faster R-CNN, and YOLOv3, in detecting the EL defect.


2013 ◽  
Vol 717 ◽  
pp. 444-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Huang ◽  
Guo Feng Yang ◽  
Ya Qiong Ma ◽  
Yan Ming Wang

According to the low recognition rate of Hu invariant moments in the target images, this article proposes a vehicle-logo recognition research algorithm based on the modified invariant moments. At first, use the template matching to locate the vehicle-logo rough area and use the edge detection for accurate location. Then, calculate the characteristic value of the modified invariant moments of the vehicle-logo, finally, the vehicle-logo is recognized according to the minimum distance of invariant moments. The experimental results show that the modified invariant moments can improve the recognition rate of target images effectively.


Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haotian Li ◽  
Kezheng Lin ◽  
Jingxuan Bai ◽  
Ao Li ◽  
Jiali Yu

In order to improve the detection rate of the traditional single-shot multibox detection algorithm in small object detection, a feature-enhanced fusion SSD object detection algorithm based on the pyramid network is proposed. Firstly, the selected multiscale feature layer is merged with the scale-invariant convolutional layer through the feature pyramid network structure; at the same time, the multiscale feature map is separately converted into the channel number using the scale-invariant convolution kernel. Then, the obtained two sets of pyramid-shaped feature layers are further feature fused to generate a set of enhanced multiscale feature maps, and the scale-invariant convolution is performed again on these layers. Finally, the obtained layer is used for detection and localization. The final location coordinates and confidence are output after nonmaximum suppression. Experimental results on the Pascal VOC 2007 and 2012 datasets confirm that there is a 8.2% improvement in mAP compared to the original SSD and some existing algorithms.


2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 2418-2421
Author(s):  
Sheng Ke Wang ◽  
Lili Liu ◽  
Xiaowei Xu

In this paper, we present a comparison of the scale-invariant feature transforms (SIFT)-based feature-matching scheme and the speeded up robust features (SURF)-based feature-matching scheme in the field of vehicle logo recognition. We capture a set of logo images which are varied in illumination, blur, scale, and rotation. Six kinds of vehicle logo training set are formed using 25 images in average and the rest images are used to form the testing set. The Logo Recognition system that we programmed indicates a high recognition rate of the same kind of query images through adjusting different parameters.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiaoguo Zhang ◽  
Ye Gao ◽  
Fei Ye ◽  
Qihan Liu ◽  
Kaixin Zhang

SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector) is one of the best object detection algorithms and is able to provide high accurate object detection performance in real time. However, SSD shows relatively poor performance on small object detection because its shallow prediction layer, which is responsible for detecting small objects, lacks enough semantic information. To overcome this problem, SKIPSSD, an improved SSD with a novel skip connection of multiscale feature maps, is proposed in this paper to enhance the semantic information and the details of the prediction layers through skippingly fusing high-level and low-level feature maps. For the detail of the fusion methods, we design two feature fusion modules and multiple fusion strategies to improve the SSD detector’s sensitivity and perception ability. Experimental results on the PASCAL VOC2007 test set demonstrate that SKIPSSD significantly improves the detection performance and outperforms lots of state-of-the-art object detectors. With an input size of 300 × 300, SKIPSSD achieves 79.0% mAP (mean average precision) at 38.7 FPS (frame per second) on a single 1080 GPU, 1.8% higher than the mAP of SSD while still keeping the real-time detection speed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 2244-2246
Author(s):  
Shao-qing MO ◽  
Zheng-guang LIU ◽  
Jun ZHANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 893-902
Author(s):  
Ke Xu

Abstract A portrait recognition system can play an important role in emergency evacuation in mass emergencies. This paper designed a portrait recognition system, analyzed the overall structure of the system and the method of image preprocessing, and used the Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) algorithm for portrait detection. It also designed an improved algorithm combining principal component analysis (PCA) with linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for portrait recognition and tested the system by applying it in a shopping mall to collect and monitor the portrait and establish a data set. The results showed that the missing detection rate and false detection rate of the SSD algorithm were 0.78 and 2.89%, respectively, which were lower than those of the AdaBoost algorithm. Comparisons with PCA, LDA, and PCA + LDA algorithms demonstrated that the recognition rate of the improved PCA + LDA algorithm was the highest, which was 95.8%, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was the largest, and the recognition time was the shortest, which was 465 ms. The experimental results show that the improved PCA + LDA algorithm is reliable in portrait recognition and can be used for emergency evacuation in mass emergencies.


2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 2336-2340
Author(s):  
Yun Feng Yang ◽  
Feng Xian Tang

In order to construct a certain standard structure MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) image library by extracting and collating unstructured literature data information, an identification method of the image and text information fusion is proposed. The method makes use of PHOW (Pyramid Histogram Of Words) to represent image features, combines with the word frequency characteristics of the embedded icon note (text), and then uses posterior multiplication fusion method to complete the classification and identification of the online biological literature MRI image. The experimental results show that this method has better correct recognition rate and better recognition performance than feature identification method only based on PHOW or text. The study can offer use for reference to construct other structured professional database from online literature.


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