Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm

Road target detection is essential for enhancing vehicle safety, increasing operational efficiency, and optimizing user experience. It also forms a crucial part of autonomous driving and intelligent monitoring systems. However, current technologies face significant limitations in multi-level feature...

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Main Authors: Xingyu Liu, Yuanfeng Chu, Yiheng Hu, Nan Zhao
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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description Road target detection is essential for enhancing vehicle safety, increasing operational efficiency, and optimizing user experience. It also forms a crucial part of autonomous driving and intelligent monitoring systems. However, current technologies face significant limitations in multi-level feature fusion and the accurate identification of key targets in complex data environments. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an innovative algorithmic model called BiFPN GAM SimC2f-YOLO (BGS-YOLO), aimed at improving detection performance. Initially, this paper employs the Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) to effectively integrate multi-level features. This integration overcomes the limitations in feature extraction and recognition found in existing target detection algorithms. Following this, this paper introduces the Global Attention Module (GAM), which markedly improves the efficiency and accuracy of extracting key target information in complex data environments. Additionally, this paper innovatively designs the SimAM-C2f (SimC2f) network, further advancing feature expressiveness and fusion efficiency. Experiments on the public COCO dataset demonstrate that the BGS-YOLO model significantly outperforms the existing YOLOv8n model. Notably, it shows a 7.3% increase in mean average precision (mAP) and a 2.4% improvement in accuracy. These results highlight the model’s high precision and swift response in detecting road targets in complex traffic scenarios. Consequently, the BGS-YOLO model has the potential to significantly enhance road safety and contribute to a considerable reduction in traffic accident rates.
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spelling doaj-art-a8646addebeb48d69b60e7db1aaaf5fd2025-01-24T00:02:39ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems2687-78132024-01-01550951910.1109/OJITS.2024.344969810646366Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 AlgorithmXingyu Liu0https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7549-0173Yuanfeng Chu1https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9085-1289Yiheng Hu2Nan Zhao3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2502-2324School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, U.K.Li Auto Inc., Beijing, ChinaSchool of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, U.K.School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandRoad target detection is essential for enhancing vehicle safety, increasing operational efficiency, and optimizing user experience. It also forms a crucial part of autonomous driving and intelligent monitoring systems. However, current technologies face significant limitations in multi-level feature fusion and the accurate identification of key targets in complex data environments. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an innovative algorithmic model called BiFPN GAM SimC2f-YOLO (BGS-YOLO), aimed at improving detection performance. Initially, this paper employs the Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) to effectively integrate multi-level features. This integration overcomes the limitations in feature extraction and recognition found in existing target detection algorithms. Following this, this paper introduces the Global Attention Module (GAM), which markedly improves the efficiency and accuracy of extracting key target information in complex data environments. Additionally, this paper innovatively designs the SimAM-C2f (SimC2f) network, further advancing feature expressiveness and fusion efficiency. Experiments on the public COCO dataset demonstrate that the BGS-YOLO model significantly outperforms the existing YOLOv8n model. Notably, it shows a 7.3% increase in mean average precision (mAP) and a 2.4% improvement in accuracy. These results highlight the model’s high precision and swift response in detecting road targets in complex traffic scenarios. Consequently, the BGS-YOLO model has the potential to significantly enhance road safety and contribute to a considerable reduction in traffic accident rates.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10646366/Road target detectionautonomous drivingBiFPNGAMYOLO
spellingShingle Xingyu Liu
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Yiheng Hu
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Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Road target detection
autonomous driving
BiFPN
GAM
YOLO
title Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
title_full Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
title_fullStr Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
title_short Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm
title_sort enhancing intelligent road target monitoring a novel bgs yolo approach based on the yolov8 algorithm
topic Road target detection
autonomous driving
BiFPN
GAM
YOLO
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10646366/
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