1.School of Traffic & Transportation,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
2.Chongqing Key Laboratory of "Human-Vehicle-Road" Cooperation and Safety for Mountain Complex Environment,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
3.Chongqing Transportation Planning and Research Institute,Chongqing 400074,China
Aiming at the issues of severe missed detections and low detection accuracy for small targets in the perspective of drone aerial photography, an improved YOLOX network is proposed for the detection of drone aerial images. To enhance the feature learning ability of the network, the ASFF module is introduced in the feature fusion part, and the CA mechanism is embedded in the neck of the network. To enhance the network's learning of positive samples, the binary cross-entropy loss function is replaced with the varifocal loss function. Experimental results show that the improved YOLOX network has better detection efficiency, and its mAP@50 reaches 91.50% and mAP@50_95 reached 79.65%. The visualization results in various traffic scenarios show that compared with other algorithms, the optimized network has a lower missed detection rate and higher detection accuracy, which can be competent for the detection task of small target vehicles, and can provide a reference for vehicle multi-target tracking applications from a high-altitude perspective.
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