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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 1833-1844.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.10.006

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-感知&HMI&测评2023年

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Lightweight YOLOv7-R Algorithm for Road-Side View Target Detection

Xiaojun Zhang1(),Jingzhe Xi1,2,Yanlei Shi2,Anlu Yuan2   

  1. 1.School of Mechanical Engineering,Hebei University of Technology,Tianjin  300401
    2.Automotive Engineering Research Institute,China Automotive Technology and Research Center,Tianjin  300300
  • Received:2023-01-29 Revised:2023-03-21 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-23
  • Contact: Xiaojun Zhang E-mail:xjzhang@hebut.edu.cn

Abstract:

A lightweight detection algorithm YOLOV7-R based on the YOLOv7 algorithm is proposed to solve the problems of model deployment difficulty, multi-scale problem of the measured target and occlusion problem between targets in the detection process of the road side sensing unit in V2X. Firstly, the backbone of YOLOv7 is rebuilt using the improved EfficientNetv2-s to reduce the model parameters and improve the model detection speed. Secondly, CA coordinate attention mechanism is adopted to retain accurate location information to enhance the performance of the model for multi-scale targets. At the same time, Focal-EIoU loss function is utilized to enhance the accuracy of the algorithm. Finally, GridMask image enhancement is used in the pre-processing stage to improve the learning ability of the algorithm for the blocked target. The experimental results show that compared with the baseline algorithm YOLOv7, the map@0.5 and map@0.5:0.95 value of the proposed algorithm on the DAIR-V2X-I dataset is increased by 3% and 4.8%, respectively, with the detection rate reaching 96.3 f/s, which can meet the requirements of lightweight and obtain better detection accuracy, and effectively implement the detection task of the road side unit for traffic participants.

Key words: deep learning, roadside perception, YOLOv7, lightweight, attention mechanism, IVICS