A survey of the four pillars for small object detection: Multiscale representation, contextual information, super-resolution, and region proposal

G Chen, H Wang, K Chen, Z Li, Z Song… - … on systems, man …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although great progress has been made in generic object detection by advanced deep
learning techniques, detecting small objects from images is still a difficult and challenging …

Road infrastructure challenges faced by automated driving: A review

T Mihalj, H Li, D Babić, C Lex, M Jeudy, G Zovak… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Automated driving can no longer be referred to as hype or science fiction but rather a
technology that has been gradually introduced to the market. The recent activities of …

A guide to image and video based small object detection using deep learning: Case study of maritime surveillance

AM Rekavandi, L Xu, F Boussaid… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that
even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify …

Automatic traffic sign detection and recognition using SegU-Net and a modified Tversky loss function with L1-constraint

U Kamal, TI Tonmoy, S Das… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic sign detection is a central part of autonomous vehicle technology. Recent advances
in deep learning algorithms have motivated researchers to use neural networks to perform …

Traffic sign detection under challenging conditions: A deeper look into performance variations and spectral characteristics

D Temel, MH Chen, G AlRegib - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic signs are critical for maintaining the safety and efficiency of our roads. Therefore, we
need to carefully assess the capabilities and limitations of automated traffic sign detection …

Neural-network-based traffic sign detection and recognition in high-definition images using region focusing and parallelization

A Avramović, D Sluga, D Tabernik, D Skočaj… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent trends in the development of autonomous vehicles focus on real-time processing of
vast amounts of data from various sensors. The data can be acquired using multiple …

Evaluation method of deep learning-based embedded systems for traffic sign detection

M Lopez-Montiel, U Orozco-Rosas… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic Sign Detection (TSD) is a complex and fundamental task for developing autonomous
vehicles; it is one of the most critical visual perception problems since failing in this task may …

Robustness of object detectors in degrading weather conditions

MJ Mirza, C Buerkle, J Jarquin, M Opitz… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State-of-the-art object detection systems for autonomous driving achieve promising results in
clear weather conditions. However, such autonomous safety critical systems also need to …

A survey of FPGA-based vision systems for autonomous cars

D Castells-Rufas, V Ngo, J Borrego-Carazo… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On the road to making self-driving cars a reality, academic and industrial researchers are
working hard to continue to increase safety while meeting technical and regulatory …

Robustness of visual perception system in progressive challenging weather scenarios

X Li, S Zhang, X Chen, Y Wang, Z Fan, X Pang… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional field test and laboratory test can only evaluate hardware performance, and
cannot test the robustness of artificial intelligence (AI) device for object detection, instance …