Dataset: Roundabout Aerial Images for Vehicle Detection (original) (raw)

Vehicle detection in aerial images

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

The vehicle detection in the aerial images is widely used in many applications. Comparing with the object detection in the ground view images, vehicle detection in the aerial images remains a challenging problem due to the small size of vehicles, monotone appearance and complex background. In this paper, we propose the solution of this issue using the convolutional neural networks. We further introduce the large-scale vehicle detection dataset with ground truth annotations for all the vehicles in the scene that considers the scene complexity due to the environmental conditions. We show the performance of the trained model with other popular neural work architectures.

A New Dataset and Performance Evaluation of a Region-Based CNN for Urban Object Detection

Electronics, 2018

In recent years, we have seen a large growth in the number of applications which use deep learning-based object detectors. Autonomous driving assistance systems (ADAS) are one of the areas where they have the most impact. This work presents a novel study evaluating a state-of-the-art technique for urban object detection and localization. In particular, we investigated the performance of the Faster R-CNN method to detect and localize urban objects in a variety of outdoor urban videos involving pedestrians, cars, bicycles and other objects moving in the scene (urban driving). We propose a new dataset that is used for benchmarking the accuracy of a real-time object detector (Faster R-CNN). Part of the data was collected using an HD camera mounted on a vehicle. Furthermore, some of the data is weakly annotated so it can be used for testing weakly supervised learning techniques. There already exist urban object datasets, but none of them include all the essential urban objects. We carrie...

Vehicle Detection from Aerial Images Using Deep Learning: A Comparative Study

Electronics

This paper addresses the problem of car detection from aerial images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This problem presents additional challenges as compared to car (or any object) detection from ground images because the features of vehicles from aerial images are more difficult to discern. To investigate this issue, we assess the performance of three state-of-the-art CNN algorithms, namely Faster R-CNN, which is the most popular region-based algorithm, as well as YOLOv3 and YOLOv4, which are known to be the fastest detection algorithms. We analyze two datasets with different characteristics to check the impact of various factors, such as the UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicle) altitude, camera resolution, and object size. A total of 52 training experiments were conducted to account for the effect of different hyperparameter values. The objective of this work is to conduct the most robust and exhaustive comparison between these three cutting-edge algorithms on the specific d...

Aerial Images Processing for Car Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks: Comparison between Faster R-CNN and YoloV3

In this paper, we address the problem of car detection from aerial images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). This problem presents additional challenges as compared to car (or any object) detection from ground images because features of vehicles from aerial images are more difficult to discern. To investigate this issue, we assess the performance of two state-of-the-art CNN algorithms, namely Faster R-CNN, which is the most popular region-based algorithm, and YOLOv3, which is known to be the fastest detection algorithm. We analyze two datasets with different characteristics to check the impact of various factors, such as UAV’s altitude, camera resolution, and object size. The objective of this work is to conduct a robust comparison between these two cutting-edge algorithms. By using a variety of metrics, we show that none of the two algorithms outperforms the other in all cases.

AVDNet: A Small-Sized Vehicle Detection Network for Aerial Visual Data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2020

Detection of small-sized targets in aerial views is a challenging task due to the smallness of vehicle size, complex background, and monotonic object appearances. In this letter, we propose a one-stage vehicle detection network (AVDNet) to robustly detect small-sized vehicles in aerial scenes. In AVDNet, we introduced ConvRes residual blocks at multiple scales to alleviate the problem of vanishing features for smaller objects caused because of the inclusion of deeper convolutional layers. These residual blocks, along with enlarged output feature map, ensure the robust representation of the salient features for small-sized objects. Furthermore, we proposed a recurrent-feature aware visualization (RFAV) technique to analyze the network behavior. We also created a new airborne image data set (ABD) by annotating 1396 new objects in 79 aerial images for our experiments. The effectiveness of AVDNet is validated on VEDAI, DLR-3K, DOTA, and the combined (VEDAI, DLR-3K, DOTA, and ABD) data s...

Car Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Comparison between Faster R-CNN and YOLOv3

2019 1st International Conference on Unmanned Vehicle Systems-Oman (UVS), 2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being used in surveillance and traffic monitoring thanks to their high mobility and ability to cover areas at different altitudes and locations. One of the major challenges is to use aerial images to accurately detect cars and count-them in real-time for traffic monitoring purposes. Several deep learning techniques were recently proposed based on convolution neural network (CNN) for real-time classification and recognition in computer vision. However, their performance depends on the scenarios where they are used. In this paper, we investigate the performance of two state-of-the art CNN algorithms, namely Faster R-CNN and YOLOv3, in the context of car detection from aerial images. We trained and tested these two models on a large car dataset taken from UAVs. We demonstrated in this paper that YOLOv3 outperforms Faster R-CNN in sensitivity and processing time, although they are comparable in the precision metric.

Deep Learning Approach for Car Detection in UAV Imagery

Remote Sensing, 2017

This paper presents an automatic solution to the problem of detecting and counting cars in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. This is a challenging task given the very high spatial resolution of UAV images (on the order of a few centimetres) and the extremely high level of detail, which require suitable automatic analysis methods. Our proposed method begins by segmenting the input image into small homogeneous regions, which can be used as candidate locations for car detection. Next, a window is extracted around each region, and deep learning is used to mine highly descriptive features from these windows. We use a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) system that is already pre-trained on huge auxiliary data as a feature extraction tool, combined with a linear support vector machine (SVM) classifier to classify regions into "car" and "no-car" classes. The final step is devoted to a fine-tuning procedure which performs morphological dilation to smooth the detected regions and fill any holes. In addition, small isolated regions are analysed further using a few sliding rectangular windows to locate cars more accurately and remove false positives. To evaluate our method, experiments were conducted on a challenging set of real UAV images acquired over an urban area. The experimental results have proven that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, both in terms of accuracy and computational time.

Car Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles : Comparison between Faster R-CNN and YOLOv 3 Conference Paper

2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly beingused in surveillance and traffic monitoring thanks to their highmobility and ability to cover areas at different altitudes andlocations. One of the major challenges is to use aerial imagesto accurately detect cars and count-them in real-time for trafficmonitoring purposes. Several deep learning techniques wererecently proposed based on convolution neural network (CNN)for real-time classification and recognition in computer vision.However, their performance depends on the scenarios wherethey are used. In this paper, we investigate the performance oftwo state-of-the art CNN algorithms, namely Faster R-CNN andYOLOv3, in the context of car detection from aerial images.We trained and tested these two models on a large car datasettaken from UAVs. We demonstrated in this paper that YOLOv3outperforms Faster R-CNN in sensitivity and processing time,although they are comparable in the precision metric. Car Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Dataset of Annotated Virtual Detection Line for Road Traffic Monitoring

Data

Monitoring, detection, and control of traffic is a serious problem in many cities and on roads around the world and poses a problem for effective and safe control and management of pedestrians with edge devices. Systems using the computer vision approach must ensure the safety of citizens and minimize the risk of traffic collisions. This approach is well suited for multiple object detection by automatic video surveillance cameras on roads, highways, and pedestrian walkways. A new Annotated Virtual Detection Line (AVDL) dataset is presented for multiple object detection, consisting of 74,108 data files and 74,108 manually annotated files divided into six classes: Vehicles, Trucks, Pedestrians, Bicycles, Motorcycles, and Scooters from the video. The data were captured from real road scenes using 50 video cameras from the leading video camera manufacturers at different road locations and under different meteorological conditions. The AVDL dataset consists of two directories, the Data d...

Spatio-temporal Road Detection from Aerial Imagery using CNNs

2017

The main goal of this paper is to detect roads from aerial imagery recorded by drones. To achieve this, we propose a modification of SegNet, a deep fully convolutional neural network for image segmentation. In order to train this neural network, we have put together a database containing videos of roads from the point of view of a small commercial drone. Additionally, we have developed an image annotation tool based on the watershed technique, in order to perform a semi-automatic labeling of the videos in this database. The experimental results using our modified version of SegNet show a big improvement on the performance of the neural network when using aerial imagery, obtaining over 90% accuracy.