Object Detection for Hazardous Material Vehicles Based on Improved YOLOv5 Algorithm

Abstract

Hazardous material vehicles are a non-negligible mobile source of danger in transport and pose a significant safety risk. At present, the current detection technology is well developed, but it also faces a series of challenges such as a significant amount of computational effort and unsatisfactory accuracy. To address these issues, this paper proposes a method based on YOLOv5 to improve the detection accuracy of hazardous material vehicles. The method introduces an attention module in the YOLOv5 backbone network as well as the neck network to achieve the purpose of extracting better features by assigning different weights to different parts of the feature map to suppress non-critical information. In order to enhance the fusion capability of the model under different sized feature maps, the SPPF (Spatial Pyramid Pooling-Fast) layer in the network is replaced by the SPPCSPC (Spatial Pyramid Pooling Cross Stage Partial Conv) layer. In addition, the bounding box loss function was replaced with the SIoU loss function in order to effectively speed up the bounding box regression and enhance the localization accuracy of the model. Experiments on the dataset show that the improved model has effectively improved the detection accuracy of hazardous chemical vehicles compared with the original model. Our model is of great significance for achieving traffic accident monitoring and effective emergency rescue.