Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s

A vehicle detection algorithm is an indispensable component of intelligent traffic management and control systems, influencing the efficiency and functionality of the system. In this paper, we propose a lightweight improvement method for the YOLOv5 algorithm based on integrated perceptual attention,...

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Main Authors: Yuhai Wang, Shuobo Xu, Peng Wang, Kefeng Li, Ze Song, Quanfeng Zheng, Yanshun Li, Qiang He
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/4/1182
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author Yuhai Wang
Shuobo Xu
Peng Wang
Kefeng Li
Ze Song
Quanfeng Zheng
Yanshun Li
Qiang He
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Shuobo Xu
Peng Wang
Kefeng Li
Ze Song
Quanfeng Zheng
Yanshun Li
Qiang He
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description A vehicle detection algorithm is an indispensable component of intelligent traffic management and control systems, influencing the efficiency and functionality of the system. In this paper, we propose a lightweight improvement method for the YOLOv5 algorithm based on integrated perceptual attention, with few parameters and high detection accuracy. First, we propose a lightweight module IPA with a Transformer encoder based on integrated perceptual attention, which leads to a reduction in the number of parameters while capturing global dependencies for richer contextual information. Second, we propose a lightweight and efficient multiscale spatial channel reconstruction (MSCCR) module that does not increase parameter and computational complexity and facilitates representative feature learning. Finally, we incorporate the IPA module and the MSCCR module into the YOLOv5s backbone network to reduce model parameters and improve accuracy. The test results show that, compared with the original model, the model parameters decrease by about 9%, the average accuracy (mAP@50) increases by 3.1%, and the FLOPS does not increase.
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spelling doaj.art-ddc26865e3f4434e81d71c621f5ed8ec2024-02-23T15:33:46ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-02-01244118210.3390/s24041182Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5sYuhai Wang0Shuobo Xu1Peng Wang2Kefeng Li3Ze Song4Quanfeng Zheng5Yanshun Li6Qiang He7School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan 250357, ChinaA vehicle detection algorithm is an indispensable component of intelligent traffic management and control systems, influencing the efficiency and functionality of the system. In this paper, we propose a lightweight improvement method for the YOLOv5 algorithm based on integrated perceptual attention, with few parameters and high detection accuracy. First, we propose a lightweight module IPA with a Transformer encoder based on integrated perceptual attention, which leads to a reduction in the number of parameters while capturing global dependencies for richer contextual information. Second, we propose a lightweight and efficient multiscale spatial channel reconstruction (MSCCR) module that does not increase parameter and computational complexity and facilitates representative feature learning. Finally, we incorporate the IPA module and the MSCCR module into the YOLOv5s backbone network to reduce model parameters and improve accuracy. The test results show that, compared with the original model, the model parameters decrease by about 9%, the average accuracy (mAP@50) increases by 3.1%, and the FLOPS does not increase.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/4/1182artificial intelligencedeep learningobject detectionvehicle detectionlightweight
spellingShingle Yuhai Wang
Shuobo Xu
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Kefeng Li
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Yanshun Li
Qiang He
Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
Sensors
artificial intelligence
deep learning
object detection
vehicle detection
lightweight
title Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_full Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_fullStr Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_full_unstemmed Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_short Lightweight Vehicle Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_sort lightweight vehicle detection based on improved yolov5s
topic artificial intelligence
deep learning
object detection
vehicle detection
lightweight
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/4/1182
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