BFS-YOLO: a lightweight vehicle detection algorithm with a cross-layer feature fusion structure
摘要
Balancing real-time performance and accuracy in an autonomous driving perception system for target detection under complex road conditions is a challenging task. This is due to the mobility and unpredictability of vehicle targets, which results in low detection accuracy and poor real-time performance. This paper proposes propose a light-weight vehicle detection algorithm, BFS-YOLO, to achieve efficient and accurate vehicle detection in complex road scenarios. First, this paper developed a Layer Bridge Feature Pyramid Network (LBFPN) to enhance detection accuracy through multi-scale feature fusion. Second, to address the issue of the large number of parameters of C2f Module in the original network, a lightweight Fast Module is designed to replace it, reducing the overall parameters of the network and improving operational speed by eliminating redundant convolution computations in feature fusion. To further reduce parameters, this study designs a lightweight SCHead with adaptive convolution, replacing the original detection head, improving overall network accuracy and further reducing parameters. This paper evaluated BFS-YOLO on the KITTI dataset. The proposed model contains only 1.15M parameters, achieving a 61% reduction compared to the baseline. Remarkably, the detection speed has been improved by 33 FPS compared with the previous version of the model, and the