Accurate and real-time traffic-sign detection is a cornerstone of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems(ADAS)and autonomous vehicles.However,existing one-stage detectors miss distant signs,and two-stage pipelines are imp...Accurate and real-time traffic-sign detection is a cornerstone of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems(ADAS)and autonomous vehicles.However,existing one-stage detectors miss distant signs,and two-stage pipelines are impractical for embedded deployment.To address this issue,we present YOLO-SMM,a lightweight two-stage framework.This framework is designed to augment the YOLOv8 baseline with three targeted modules.(1)SlimNeck replaces PAN/FPN with a CSP-OSA/GSConv fusion block,reducing parameters and FLOPs without compromising multi-scale detail.(2)The MCA model introduces row-and column-aware weights to selectively amplify small sign regions in cluttered scenes.(3)MPDIoU augments CIoU loss with a corner-distance term,supplying stable gradients for sub-20-pixel boxes and tightening localization.An evaluation of YOLO-SMMon the German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark(GTSRB)revealed that it attained 96.3% mAP50 and 93.1% mAP50-90 at a rate of 90.6 frames per second(FPS).This represents an improvement of+1.0% over previous performance benchmarks.Them APat 64×64 resolution was found to be 50% of the maximum attainable value,with an FPS of+8.3 when compared to YOLOv8.This result indicates superior performance in terms of accuracy and speed compared to YOLOv7,YOLOv5,RetinaNet,EfficientDet,and Faster R-CNN,all of which were operated under equivalent conditions.展开更多
基金supported by University of Malaya and Ministry of High Education-Malaysia via Fundamental Research Grant Scheme No.FRGS/1/2023/TK10/UM/02/3.
文摘Accurate and real-time traffic-sign detection is a cornerstone of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems(ADAS)and autonomous vehicles.However,existing one-stage detectors miss distant signs,and two-stage pipelines are impractical for embedded deployment.To address this issue,we present YOLO-SMM,a lightweight two-stage framework.This framework is designed to augment the YOLOv8 baseline with three targeted modules.(1)SlimNeck replaces PAN/FPN with a CSP-OSA/GSConv fusion block,reducing parameters and FLOPs without compromising multi-scale detail.(2)The MCA model introduces row-and column-aware weights to selectively amplify small sign regions in cluttered scenes.(3)MPDIoU augments CIoU loss with a corner-distance term,supplying stable gradients for sub-20-pixel boxes and tightening localization.An evaluation of YOLO-SMMon the German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark(GTSRB)revealed that it attained 96.3% mAP50 and 93.1% mAP50-90 at a rate of 90.6 frames per second(FPS).This represents an improvement of+1.0% over previous performance benchmarks.Them APat 64×64 resolution was found to be 50% of the maximum attainable value,with an FPS of+8.3 when compared to YOLOv8.This result indicates superior performance in terms of accuracy and speed compared to YOLOv7,YOLOv5,RetinaNet,EfficientDet,and Faster R-CNN,all of which were operated under equivalent conditions.
