Research on intelligent vehicle target detection algorithm based on binocular vision.

The environmental perception of intelligent vehicles is an important part of achieving autonomous driving, and object detection is one of the crucial functions of the environmental perception systems. Accurate and rapid detection of targets nearby is essentail for the smart vehicles. The faster and more accurately the detection algorithm can detect surrounding targets, the better. However, the detection speed and accuracy of existing perception algorithms still need improving. The distance information between the surrounding objects and the vehicle itself during its operation should also be obtained. The widely used YOLO series of algorithms, as representatives of one-stage object detection methods, have achieved a satisfactory balance between speed and detection accuracy, but there is stiil great potential for further improvement. This paper proposes an end-to-end object detection algorithm based on YOLO algorithm improvement-dual YOLO, which detects and measures the major participants in road traffic ( cars, pedestrians, cyclists) . The attention mechanism acts in the same way as humans observe things, focusing on more important information. The basic idea of combining attention mechanism with convolutional neural networks is to allow the network to concentrate on effective feature information in the image and ignore invalid information, thus improving the overall detection precision. Its mechanism of action is achieved by changing the weights of neurons in the network. This paper is based on the improvement of YOLOV5 algorithm, adding a channel attention mechanism to the backbone network to increase the learning weight of the neural network for effective features, thereby enhancing detection accuracy. In the meantime, a distance measurement module for binocular cameras is introduced to obtain target distance information. The basic principle of binocular camera ranging is triangulation, which employs the visual difference between two cameras to determine the distance of an object. Firstly, the camera is calibrated and distortion is corrected, and then stereo matching using the Semi Global Block Matching (SGBM) algorithm is performed to obtain disparity. Finally, the distance information of the target is calculated. The test results show the dual YOLO object detection algorithm achieves a detection speed of 60 fps and an average accuracy of 85. 99% in identifying the major participants in road traffic, which are far more superior to other algorithms in detecting cyclists and pedestrians. The proposed algorithm well meets the real-time detection and distance measurement requirements of intelligent vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]