Scim: a lightweight spatial-channel interaction module for enhancing object detection in autonomous driving
摘要
Object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. As road environments grow increasingly complex, this study proposes a novel Spatial-Channel Interaction Module to address perception challenges in autonomous driving. The module combines the local perception capabilities of convolutional neural networksss (CNNs) with the global attention mechanism of Vision Transformer (ViT). It is a lightweight, plug-and-play feature processing unit that significantly enhances object detection performance with minimal computational overhead. Experimental results demonstrate significant performance improvements in both the YOLO series and RT-DETR, particularly for the YOLOv10m model, which achieves a 2.2% increase in detection accuracy. Additionally, the precision of YOLOv10m improved by 1.3% on the MS COCO dataset. These results clearly demonstrate the adaptability and effectiveness of model in enhancing object detection, especially its potential for broad application in complex autonomous driving scenarios.