Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (10): 3271-3278.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2024.10.04

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Road small target detection based on improved YOLO v5 algorithm

Cunli SONG, Weiqin CHAI, Xuesong ZHANG   

  1. School of Software, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China
  • Received:2023-07-03 Online:2024-09-25 Published:2024-10-22
  • Contact: Xuesong ZHANG

Abstract:

In order to solve the problems that small targets on traffic roads faces including detection difficulty, low precision, detection failures, a multi-scale feature fusion target detection improvement algorithm based on the YOLO v5 (you only look once v5) algorithm is proposed. Firstly, the small target detection head is added for adapting to the small target size and alleviating the missed detection. Then, deformable convolutional networks V2 (DCN V2) is introduced to improve the model's learning ability for small targets in motion. The context augmentation module (CAM) is introduced to improve the recognition ability of small targets at a long distance. The replacement loss function is used to improve the bounding box's localization accuracy, and the spatial pyramid pooling and context spatial pyramid convolution_group (SPPCSPC_group) module is also used to improve the sensory field and feature expression ability of the network. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm achieves an average accuracy of 95.2% in the category of small targets in the KITTI dataset, compared with the original YOLO v5 algorithm, the overall average accuracy is improved by 2.7%. For the detection of small targets, the average accuracy is improved by 3.1% with a better detection effect, which proves the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for the detection of small targets on roads.

Key words: you only look once v5 (YOLO v5), small target detection, context augmentation module (CAM), deformable convolutional networks (DCN)

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