Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control (ASCL), Changchun 130025, China
2. College of Transportation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
Abstract
The efficient and accurate identification of traffic signs is crucial to the safety and reliability of active driving assistance and driverless vehicles. However, the accurate detection of traffic signs under extreme cases remains challenging. Aiming at the problems of missing detection and false detection in traffic sign recognition in fog traffic scenes, this paper proposes a recognition algorithm for traffic signs based on pix2pixHD+YOLOv5-T. Firstly, the defogging model is generated by training the pix2pixHD network to meet the advanced visual task. Secondly, in order to better match the defogging algorithm with the target detection algorithm, the algorithm YOLOv5-Transformer is proposed by introducing a transformer module into the backbone of YOLOv5. Finally, the defogging algorithm pix2pixHD is combined with the improved YOLOv5 detection algorithm to complete the recognition of traffic signs in foggy environments. Comparative experiments proved that the traffic sign recognition algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the impact of a foggy environment on traffic sign recognition. Compared with the YOLOv5-T and YOLOv5 algorithms in moderate fog environments, the overall improvement of this algorithm is achieved. The precision of traffic sign recognition of the algorithm in the fog traffic scene reached 78.5%, the recall rate was 72.2%, and mAP@0.5 was 82.8%.
Funder
Open Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control
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