scholarly journals False Ceiling Deterioration Detection and Mapping Using a Deep Learning Framework and the Teleoperated Reconfigurable ‘Falcon’ Robot

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Archana Semwal ◽  
Rajesh Elara Elara Mohan ◽  
Lee Ming Jun Melvin ◽  
Povendhan Palanisamy ◽  
Chanthini Baskar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Hvac Systems ◽  
Structural Defects ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Electrical Wire ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Periodic Inspection ◽  
Pest Infestation

Periodic inspection of false ceilings is mandatory to ensure building and human safety. Generally, false ceiling inspection includes identifying structural defects, degradation in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, electrical wire damage, and pest infestation. Human-assisted false ceiling inspection is a laborious and risky task. This work presents a false ceiling deterioration detection and mapping framework using a deep-neural-network-based object detection algorithm and the teleoperated `Falcon’ robot. The object detection algorithm was trained with our custom false ceiling deterioration image dataset composed of four classes: structural defects (spalling, cracks, pitted surfaces, and water damage), degradation in HVAC systems (corrosion, molding, and pipe damage), electrical damage (frayed wires), and infestation (termites and rodents). The efficiency of the trained CNN algorithm and deterioration mapping was evaluated through various experiments and real-time field trials. The experimental results indicate that the deterioration detection and mapping results were accurate in a real false-ceiling environment and achieved an 89.53% detection accuracy.

scholarly journals A Set of Single YOLO Modalities to Detect Occluded Entities via Viewpoint Conversion

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6016
Author(s):  
Jinsoo Kim ◽  
Jeongho Cho
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Bounding Boxes ◽  
Partially Occluded ◽  
Rgb Image

For autonomous vehicles, it is critical to be aware of the driving environment to avoid collisions and drive safely. The recent evolution of convolutional neural networks has contributed significantly to accelerating the development of object detection techniques that enable autonomous vehicles to handle rapid changes in various driving environments. However, collisions in an autonomous driving environment can still occur due to undetected obstacles and various perception problems, particularly occlusion. Thus, we propose a robust object detection algorithm for environments in which objects are truncated or occluded by employing RGB image and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) bird’s eye view (BEV) representations. This structure combines independent detection results obtained in parallel through “you only look once” networks using an RGB image and a height map converted from the BEV representations of LiDAR’s point cloud data (PCD). The region proposal of an object is determined via non-maximum suppression, which suppresses the bounding boxes of adjacent regions. A performance evaluation of the proposed scheme was performed using the KITTI vision benchmark suite dataset. The results demonstrate the detection accuracy in the case of integration of PCD BEV representations is superior to when only an RGB camera is used. In addition, robustness is improved by significantly enhancing detection accuracy even when the target objects are partially occluded when viewed from the front, which demonstrates that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional RGB-based model.

scholarly journals GC-YOLOv3: You Only Look Once with Global Context Block

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1235
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Hongmin Deng
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Irrelevant Information ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Pascal Voc ◽  
Feature Pyramid

In order to make the classification and regression of single-stage detectors more accurate, an object detection algorithm named Global Context You-Only-Look-Once v3 (GC-YOLOv3) is proposed based on the You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO) in this paper. Firstly, a better cascading model with learnable semantic fusion between a feature extraction network and a feature pyramid network is designed to improve detection accuracy using a global context block. Secondly, the information to be retained is screened by combining three different scaling feature maps together. Finally, a global self-attention mechanism is used to highlight the useful information of feature maps while suppressing irrelevant information. Experiments show that our GC-YOLOv3 reaches a maximum of 55.5 object detection mean Average Precision (mAP)@0.5 on Common Objects in Context (COCO) 2017 test-dev and that the mAP is 5.1% higher than that of the YOLOv3 algorithm on Pascal Visual Object Classes (PASCAL VOC) 2007 test set. Therefore, experiments indicate that the proposed GC-YOLOv3 model exhibits optimal performance on the PASCAL VOC and COCO datasets.

scholarly journals An Improved Object Detection Method using Feature Map Refinement and Anchor Optimization

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Yuxia Wang ◽  
Wenzhu Yang ◽  
Tongtong Yuan ◽  
Qian Li
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Feature Map ◽  
Input Size ◽  
Fusion Operation ◽  
Different Levels

Lower detection accuracy and insufficient detection ability for small objects are the main problems of the region-free object detection algorithm. Aiming at solving the abovementioned problems, an improved object detection method using feature map refinement and anchor optimization is proposed. Firstly, the reverse fusion operation is performed on each of the object detection layer, which can provide the lower layers with more semantic information by the fusion of detection features at different levels. Secondly, the self-attention module is used to refine each detection feature map, calibrates the features between channels, and enhances the expression ability of local features. In addition, the anchor optimization model is introduced on each feature layer associated with anchors, and the anchors with higher probability of containing an object and more closely match the location and size of the object are obtained. In this model, semantic features are used to confirm and remove negative anchors to reduce search space of the objects, and preliminary adjustments are made to the locations and sizes of anchors. Comprehensive experimental results on PASCAL VOC detection dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In particular, with VGG-16 and lower dimension 300×300 input size, the proposed method achieves a mAP of 79.1% on VOC 2007 test set with an inference speed of 24.7 milliseconds per image.

scholarly journals CXR-RefineDet: Single-Shot Refinement Neural Network for Chest X-Ray Radiograph Based on Multiple Lesions Detection

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Cong Lin ◽  
Yongbin Zheng ◽  
Xiuchun Xiao ◽  
Jialun Lin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Network Output ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽  
Chest X Ray

The workload of radiologists has dramatically increased in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of diseases. The use of artificial intelligence technology can assist doctors in locating and identifying lesions in medical images. In order to improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis in medical imaging, we propose a lung disease detection neural network that is superior to the current mainstream object detection model in this paper. By combining the advantages of RepVGG block and Resblock in information fusion and information extraction, we design a backbone RRNet with few parameters and strong feature extraction capabilities. After that, we propose a structure called Information Reuse, which can solve the problem of low utilization of the original network output features by connecting the normalized features back to the network. Combining the network of RRNet and the improved RefineDet, we propose the overall network which was called CXR-RefineDet. Through a large number of experiments on the largest public lung chest radiograph detection dataset VinDr-CXR, it is found that the detection accuracy and inference speed of CXR-RefineDet have reached 0.1686 mAP and 6.8 fps, respectively, which is better than the two-stage object detection algorithm using a strong backbone like ResNet-50 and ResNet-101. In addition, the fast reasoning speed of CXR-RefineDet also provides the possibility for the actual implementation of the computer-aided diagnosis system.

A Robust Detector for Automated Welding Seam Tracking System

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbiao Zou ◽  
Mingquan Zhu ◽  
Xiangzhi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Weld Seam ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Welding Current ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Seam Tracking ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Welding Seam ◽  
Laser Vision

Abstract Accurate locating of the weld seam under strong noise is the biggest challenge for automated welding. In this paper, we construct a robust seam detector on the framework of deep learning object detection algorithm. The representative object algorithm, a single shot multibox detector (SSD), is studied to establish the seam detector framework. The improved SSD is applied to seam detection. Under the SSD object detection framework, combined with the characteristics of the seam detection task, the multifeature combination network (MFCN) is proposed. The network comprehensively utilizes the local information and global information carried by the multilayer features to detect a weld seam and realizes the rapid and accurate detection of the weld seam. To solve the problem of single-frame seam image detection algorithm failure under continuous super-strong noise, the sequence image multifeature combination network (SMFCN) is proposed based on the MFCN detector. The recurrent neural network (RNN) is used to learn the temporal context information of convolutional features to accurately detect the seam under continuous super-noise. Experimental results show that the proposed seam detectors are extremely robust. The SMFCN can maintain extremely high detection accuracy under continuous super-strong noise. The welding results show that the laser vision seam tracking system using the SMFCN can ensure that the welding precision meets industrial requirements under a welding current of 150 A.

scholarly journals THE OBJECT TRACKING ALGORITHM USING DIMENSIONAL BASED DETECTION FOR PUBLIC STREET ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
I. G. Matveev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Object Tracking ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Tracking Algorithm ◽  
Mesh Network ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
World Environment ◽  
Street Environment

The paper proposes an approach to object tracking for public street environments using dimensional based object detection algorithm. Besides the tracking functionality, the proposed algorithm improves the detection accuracy of the dimensional based object detection algorithm. The proposed tracking approach uses detection information obtained from multiple cameras which are structured as a mesh network. Conducted experiments performed in a real-world environment have shown 10 to 40 percent higher detection accuracy that has proved the proposed concept. The tracking algorithm requires negligible computational resources that make the algorithm especially applicable for low-performance Internet of things infrastructure.

scholarly journals A Real-Time Object Detector for Autonomous Vehicles Based on YOLOv4

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
Ziyue Wang ◽  
Zhengwei Xu ◽  
Chi Wang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Real Time ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Time Operation ◽  
On The Road

Object detection is an important part of autonomous driving technology. To ensure the safe running of vehicles at high speed, real-time and accurate detection of all the objects on the road is required. How to balance the speed and accuracy of detection is a hot research topic in recent years. This paper puts forward a one-stage object detection algorithm based on YOLOv4, which improves the detection accuracy and supports real-time operation. The backbone of the algorithm doubles the stacking times of the last residual block of CSPDarkNet53. The neck of the algorithm replaces the SPP with the RFB structure, improves the PAN structure of the feature fusion module, adds the attention mechanism CBAM and CA structure to the backbone and neck structure, and finally reduces the overall width of the network to the original 3/4, so as to reduce the model parameters and improve the inference speed. Compared with YOLOv4, the algorithm in this paper improves the average accuracy on KITTI dataset by 2.06% and BDD dataset by 2.95%. When the detection accuracy is almost unchanged, the inference speed of this algorithm is increased by 9.14%, and it can detect in real time at a speed of more than 58.47 FPS.

scholarly journals Counting Dense Leaves under Natural Environments via anImproved Deep-Learning-Based Object Detection Algorithm

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1003
Author(s):  
Shenglian Lu ◽  
Zhen Song ◽  
Wenkang Chen ◽  
Tingting Qian ◽  
Yingyu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Art Object ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor Environments ◽  
Key Indicators

The leaf is the organ that is crucial for photosynthesis and the production of nutrients in plants; as such, the number of leaves is one of the key indicators with which to describe the development and growth of a canopy. The irregular shape and distribution of the blades, as well as the effect of natural light, make the segmentation and detection process of the blades difficult. The inaccurate acquisition of plant phenotypic parameters may affect the subsequent judgment of crop growth status and crop yield. To address the challenge in counting dense and overlapped plant leaves under natural environments, we proposed an improved deep-learning-based object detection algorithm by merging a space-to-depth module, a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) into the network, and applying the smoothL1 function to improve the loss function of object prediction. We evaluated our method on images of five different plant species collected under indoor and outdoor environments. The experimental results demonstrated that our algorithm which counts dense leaves improved average detection accuracy of 85% to 96%. Our algorithm also showed better performance in both detection accuracy and time consumption compared to other state-of-the-art object detection algorithms.

scholarly journals Air-to-ground multimodal object detection algorithm based on feature association learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 172988141984299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongfang Yang ◽  
Xing Liu ◽  
Hao He ◽  
Yongfei Li
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Object Detection ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Small Object ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Association Learning ◽  
Feature Association

Detecting objects on unmanned aerial vehicles is a hard task, due to the long visual distance and the subsequent small size and lack of view. Besides, the traditional ground observation manners based on visible light camera are sensitive to brightness. This article aims to improve the target detection accuracy in various weather conditions, by using both visible light camera and infrared camera simultaneously. In this article, an association network of multimodal feature maps on the same scene is used to design an object detection algorithm, which is the so-called feature association learning method. In addition, this article collects a new cross-modal detection data set and proposes a cross-modal object detection algorithm based on visible light and infrared observations. The experimental results show that the algorithm improves the detection accuracy of small objects in the air-to-ground view. The multimodal joint detection network can overcome the influence of illumination in different weather conditions, which provides a new detection means and ideas for the space-based unmanned platform to the small object detection task.

scholarly journals Object Detection from the Video Taken by Drone via Convolutional Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenfan Sun ◽  
Wei Zhan ◽  
Jinhiu She ◽  
Yangyang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Target Detection ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Video Frames ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
And Performance

The aim of this research is to show the implementation of object detection on drone videos using TensorFlow object detection API. The function of the research is the recognition effect and performance of the popular target detection algorithm and feature extractor for recognizing people, trees, cars, and buildings from real-world video frames taken by drones. The study found that using different target detection algorithms on the “normal” image (an ordinary camera) has different performance effects on the number of instances, detection accuracy, and performance consumption of the target and the application of the algorithm to the image data acquired by the drone is different. Object detection is a key part of the realization of any robot’s complete autonomy, while unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a very active area of this field. In order to explore the performance of the most advanced target detection algorithm in the image data captured by UAV, we have done a lot of experiments to solve our functional problems and compared two different types of representative of the most advanced convolution target detection systems, such as SSD and Faster R-CNN, with MobileNet, GoogleNet/Inception, and ResNet50 base feature extractors.

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