Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)have become indispensable for intelligent traffic monitoring,particularly in low-light conditions,where traditional surveillance systems struggle.This study presents a novel deep learning...Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)have become indispensable for intelligent traffic monitoring,particularly in low-light conditions,where traditional surveillance systems struggle.This study presents a novel deep learning-based framework for nighttime aerial vehicle detection and classification that addresses critical challenges of poor illumination,noise,and occlusions.Our pipeline integrates MSRCR enhancement with OPTICS segmentation to overcome low-light challenges,while YOLOv10 enables accurate vehicle localization.The framework employs GLOH and Dense-SIFT for discriminative feature extraction,optimized using the Whale Optimization Algorithm to enhance classification performance.A Swin Transformer-based classifier provides the final categorization,leveraging hierarchical attention mechanisms for robust performance.Extensive experimentation validates our approach,achieving detection mAP@0.5 scores of 91.5%(UAVDT)and 89.7%(VisDrone),alongside classification accuracies of 95.50%and 92.67%,respectively.These results outperform state-of-the-art methods by up to 5.10%in accuracy and 4.2%in mAP,demonstrating the framework’s effectiveness for real-time aerial surveillance and intelligent traffic management in challenging nighttime environments.展开更多
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)are increasingly employed in traffic surveillance,urban planning,and infrastructure monitoring due to their cost-effectiveness,flexibility,and high-resolution imaging.However,vehicle dete...Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)are increasingly employed in traffic surveillance,urban planning,and infrastructure monitoring due to their cost-effectiveness,flexibility,and high-resolution imaging.However,vehicle detection and classification in aerial imagery remain challenging due to scale variations from fluctuating UAV altitudes,frequent occlusions in dense traffic,and environmental noise,such as shadows and lighting inconsistencies.Traditional methods,including sliding-window searches and shallow learning techniques,struggle with computational inefficiency and robustness under dynamic conditions.To address these limitations,this study proposes a six-stage hierarchical framework integrating radiometric calibration,deep learning,and classical feature engineering.The workflow begins with radiometric calibration to normalize pixel intensities and mitigate sensor noise,followed by Conditional Random Field(CRF)segmentation to isolate vehicles.YOLOv9,equipped with a bi-directional feature pyramid network(BiFPN),ensures precise multi-scale object detection.Hybrid feature extraction employs Maximally Stable Extremal Regions(MSER)for stable contour detection,Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features(BRIEF)for texture encoding,and Affine-SIFT(ASIFT)for viewpoint invariance.Quadratic Discriminant Analysis(QDA)enhances feature discrimination,while a Probabilistic Neural Network(PNN)performs Bayesian probability-based classification.Tested on the Roundabout Aerial Imagery(15,474 images,985K instances)and AU-AIR(32,823 instances,7 classes)datasets,the model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 95.54%and 94.14%,respectively.Its superior performance in detecting small-scale vehicles and resolving occlusions highlights its potential for intelligent traffic systems.Future work will extend testing to nighttime and adverse weather conditions while optimizing real-time UAV inference.展开更多
基金supported through Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2025R508)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia。
文摘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)have become indispensable for intelligent traffic monitoring,particularly in low-light conditions,where traditional surveillance systems struggle.This study presents a novel deep learning-based framework for nighttime aerial vehicle detection and classification that addresses critical challenges of poor illumination,noise,and occlusions.Our pipeline integrates MSRCR enhancement with OPTICS segmentation to overcome low-light challenges,while YOLOv10 enables accurate vehicle localization.The framework employs GLOH and Dense-SIFT for discriminative feature extraction,optimized using the Whale Optimization Algorithm to enhance classification performance.A Swin Transformer-based classifier provides the final categorization,leveraging hierarchical attention mechanisms for robust performance.Extensive experimentation validates our approach,achieving detection mAP@0.5 scores of 91.5%(UAVDT)and 89.7%(VisDrone),alongside classification accuracies of 95.50%and 92.67%,respectively.These results outperform state-of-the-art methods by up to 5.10%in accuracy and 4.2%in mAP,demonstrating the framework’s effectiveness for real-time aerial surveillance and intelligent traffic management in challenging nighttime environments.
基金supported through Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2025R508)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi ArabiaThe research team thanks the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Najran University for supporting the research project through the Nama’a program,with the project code NU/GP/SERC/13/18-5.
文摘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)are increasingly employed in traffic surveillance,urban planning,and infrastructure monitoring due to their cost-effectiveness,flexibility,and high-resolution imaging.However,vehicle detection and classification in aerial imagery remain challenging due to scale variations from fluctuating UAV altitudes,frequent occlusions in dense traffic,and environmental noise,such as shadows and lighting inconsistencies.Traditional methods,including sliding-window searches and shallow learning techniques,struggle with computational inefficiency and robustness under dynamic conditions.To address these limitations,this study proposes a six-stage hierarchical framework integrating radiometric calibration,deep learning,and classical feature engineering.The workflow begins with radiometric calibration to normalize pixel intensities and mitigate sensor noise,followed by Conditional Random Field(CRF)segmentation to isolate vehicles.YOLOv9,equipped with a bi-directional feature pyramid network(BiFPN),ensures precise multi-scale object detection.Hybrid feature extraction employs Maximally Stable Extremal Regions(MSER)for stable contour detection,Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features(BRIEF)for texture encoding,and Affine-SIFT(ASIFT)for viewpoint invariance.Quadratic Discriminant Analysis(QDA)enhances feature discrimination,while a Probabilistic Neural Network(PNN)performs Bayesian probability-based classification.Tested on the Roundabout Aerial Imagery(15,474 images,985K instances)and AU-AIR(32,823 instances,7 classes)datasets,the model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 95.54%and 94.14%,respectively.Its superior performance in detecting small-scale vehicles and resolving occlusions highlights its potential for intelligent traffic systems.Future work will extend testing to nighttime and adverse weather conditions while optimizing real-time UAV inference.
