Recognition of Taxi Violations Based on Semantic Segmentation of PSPNet and Improved YOLOv3

Abstract

Taxi has the characteristics of strong mobility and wide dispersion, which makes it difficult for relevant law enforcement officers to make accurate judgment on their illegal acts quickly and accurately. With the investment of intelligent transportation system, image analysis technology has become a new method to determine the illegal behavior of taxis, but the current image analysis method is still difficult to support the detection of illegal behavior of taxis in the actual complex image scene. To solve this problem, this study proposed a method of taxi violation recognition based on semantic segmentation of PSPNet and improved YOLOv3. (1) Based on YOLOv3, the proposed method introduces spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) for taxi recognition, which can convert vehicle feature images with different resolutions into feature vectors with the same dimension as the full connection layer and solve the problem of repeated extraction of YOLOv3 vehicle image features. (2) This method can recognize two different violations of taxi (blocking license plate and illegal parking) rather than only one. (3) Based on PSPNet semantic segmentation network, a taxi illegal parking detection method is proposed. This method can collect the global information of road condition images and aggregate the image information of different regions, so as to improve the ability to obtain the global information orderly and improve the accuracy of taxi illegal parking detection. The experimental results show that the proposed method has excellent recognition performance for the detection rate of license plate occlusion behavior DR is 85.3%, and the detection rate of taxi illegal parking phenomenon DR is 96.1%.