Summary of Reg: Refined Generalized Focal Loss For Road Asset Detection on Thai Highways Using Vision-based Detection and Segmentation Models, by Teerapong Panboonyuen
REG: Refined Generalized Focal Loss for Road Asset Detection on Thai Highways Using Vision-Based Detection and Segmentation Models
by Teerapong Panboonyuen
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel framework for detecting and segmenting critical road assets on Thai highways using an advanced Refined Generalized Focal Loss (REG) formulation. The proposed method addresses class imbalance and localizes small, underrepresented road elements like pavilions, pedestrian bridges, information signs, single-arm poles, bus stops, warning signs, and concrete guardrails. A multi-task learning strategy is adopted to optimize REG across multiple tasks, enhancing detection and segmentation accuracy. The framework incorporates a spatial-contextual adjustment term and a probabilistic refinement that captures prediction uncertainty in complex environments like varying lighting conditions and cluttered backgrounds. Experimental results show a substantial performance improvement, achieving a mAP50 of 80.34 and an F1-score of 77.87. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to detect and identify important road signs on Thai highways. It uses a special type of machine learning called REG (Refined Generalized Focal Loss) to improve the accuracy of detecting small and hard-to-find signs. The method is tested on real-world data and shows significant improvement in detecting these signs, which is important for improving road safety. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » F1 score » Machine learning » Multi task
