Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2021, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 939-951.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2021.06.005

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Multi-target Detection and Recognition for Vehicle Inspection Images Based on Deep Learning

OU Qiaofeng, XIAO Jiabing, XIE Qunqun, XIONG Bangshu   

  1. Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, Jiangxi, China
  • Received:2020-12-28 Published:2021-12-04

Abstract: A multi-target detection and recognition method of vehicle inspection images based on deep learning is proposed for faster and more automatic vehicle inspection. Firstly, a lightweight yolov3 network is used to detect and recognize vehicle head, tires, license plate and triangle marks in a vehicle inspection image; secondly, a multi-task cascade convolution neural network is used to locate the four key points of the license plate; thirdly, according to the four key point coordinates and the size prior of the target license plate, the license plate image is corrected by perspective transformation; finally, a convolutional neural network is designed to classify the background color of the license plate. Thus, a convolutional recurrent neural network is realized for license plate character recognition. Experimental results show that the average end-to-end multi-target detection and recognition accuracy of this method is 98.03% on an 816×612 car inspection image. To facilitate the application of the deep learning model in vehicle inspection scenes, the model is deployed to a CPU using Alibaba reasoning engine, and the average speed of multi-target detection and recognition reaches 10 frames per second, which meets the application requirements of vehicle inspection.

Key words: vehicle inspection image, target detection, deep learning, model deployment

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