SINet: A scale-insensitive convolutional neural network for fast vehicle detection
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
3-2019
Abstract
Vision-based vehicle detection approaches achieve incredible success in recent years with the development of deep convolutional neural network (CNN). However, existing CNN-based algorithms suffer from the problem that the convolutional features are scale-sensitive in object detection task but it is common that traffic images and videos contain vehicles with a large variance of scales. In this paper, we delve into the source of scale sensitivity, and reveal two key issues: 1) existing RoI pooling destroys the structure of small scale objects and 2) the large intra-class distance for a large variance of scales exceeds the representation capability of a single network. Based on these findings, we present a scale-insensitive convolutional neural network (SINet) for fast detecting vehicles with a large variance of scales. First, we present a context-aware RoI pooling to maintain the contextual information and original structure of small scale objects. Second, we present a multi-branch decision network to minimize the intra-class distance of features. These lightweight techniques bring zero extra time complexity but prominent detection accuracy improvement. The proposed techniques can be equipped with any deep network architectures and keep them trained end-to-end. Our SINet achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy and speed (up to 37 FPS) on the KITTI benchmark and a new highway dataset, which contains a large variance of scales and extremely small objects.
Keywords
Fast object detection, Intelligent transportation system, Scale sensitivity, Vehicle detection
Discipline
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume
20
Issue
3
First Page
1010
Last Page
1019
ISSN
1524-9050
Identifier
10.1109/TITS.2018.2838132
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
HU, Xiaowei; XU, Xuemiao; XIAO, Yongjie; CHEN, Hao; HE, Shengfeng; QIN, Jing; and HENG, Pheng-Ann.
SINet: A scale-insensitive convolutional neural network for fast vehicle detection. (2019). IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20, (3), 1010-1019.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8381
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2838132