Summary of Fused-net: Detecting Traffic Signs with Limited Data, by Md. Atiqur Rahman et al.
FUSED-Net: Detecting Traffic Signs with Limited Data
by Md. Atiqur Rahman, Nahian Ibn Asad, Md. Mushfiqul Haque Omi, Md. Bakhtiar Hasan, Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Hasanul Kabir
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces FUSED-Net, a novel traffic sign recognition model that leverages Faster RCNN and various enhancements to achieve satisfactory performance using limited data. The proposed approach, which keeps all parameters unfrozen during training, allows for learning from scarce samples. Additionally, the generation of Pseudo-Support Sets through data augmentation compensates for target domain data scarcity. Embedding Normalization reduces intra-class variance, standardizing feature representation. Domain Adaptation is achieved by pre-training on a diverse traffic sign dataset distinct from the target domain, improving model generalization. The paper evaluates FUSED-Net on the BDTSD dataset, demonstrating 2.4x to 1.3x improvements in mAP compared to state-of-the-art Few-Shot Object Detection models. Furthermore, it outperforms state-of-the-art works on the cross-domain FSOD benchmark under several scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to recognize traffic signs using computers. Right now, recognizing traffic signs is important for self-driving cars and other transportation systems. The problem is that we don’t have enough data to train a good model. So, the researchers came up with an idea called FUSED-Net. It’s like a special filter that helps the computer learn from very little data. They tested it on some real traffic signs and found that it worked much better than other methods. This is important because it could help us create more accurate self-driving cars. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Data augmentation » Domain adaptation » Embedding » Faster rcnn » Few shot » Generalization » Object detection
