Object detection in crowded scenes via joint prediction

Detecting highly-overlapped objects in crowded scenes remains a challenging problem,especially for one-stage detector.In this paper,we extricate YOLOv4 from the dilemma in a crowd by fine-tuning its detection scheme,named YOLO-CS.Specifically,we give YOLOv4 the power to detect multiple objects in one cell.Center to our method is the carefully designed joint prediction scheme,which is executed through an assignment of bounding boxes and a joint loss.Equipped with the derived joint-object augmentation(DJA),refined regression loss(RL)and Score-NMS(SN),YOLO-CS achieves competitive detection performance on CrowdHuman and CityPersons benchmarks compared with state-of-the-art detectors at the cost of little time.Furthermore,on the widely used general benchmark COCO,YOLOCS still has a good performance,indicating its robustness to various scenes.

Visual SLAM in dynamic environments based on object detection

A great number of visual simultaneous localization and mapping(VSLAM)systems need to assume static features in the environment.However,moving objects can vastly impair the performance of a VSLAM system which relies on the static-world assumption.To cope with this challenging topic,a real-time and robust VSLAM system based on ORB-SLAM2 for dynamic environments was proposed.To reduce the influence of dynamic content,we incorporate the deep-learning-based object detection method in the visual odometry,then the dynamic object probability model is added to raise the efficiency of object detection deep neural network and enhance the real-time performance of our system.Experiment with both on the TUM and KITTI benchmark dataset,as well as in a real-world environment,the results clarify that our method can significantly reduce the tracking error or drift,enhance the robustness,accuracy and stability of the VSLAM system in dynamic scenes.