Road ponding, a prevalent traffic hazard, poses a serious threat to road safety by causing vehicles to lose control and leading to accidents ranging from minor fender benders to severe collisions. Existing technologies struggle to accurately identify road ponding due to complex road textures and variable ponding coloration influenced by reflection characteristics. To address this challenge, we propose a novel approach called Self-Attention-based Global Saliency-Enhanced Network (AGSENet) for proactive road ponding detection and traffic safety improvement. AGSENet incorporates saliency detection techniques through the Channel Saliency Information Focus (CSIF) and Spatial Saliency Information Enhancement (SSIE) modules. The CSIF module, integrated into the encoder, employs self-attention to highlight similar features by fusing spatial and channel information. The SSIE module, embedded in the decoder, refines edge features and reduces noise by leveraging correlations across different feature levels. To ensure accurate and reliable evaluation, we corrected significant mislabeling and missing annotations in the Puddle-1000 dataset. Additionally, we constructed the Foggy-Puddle and Night-Puddle datasets for road ponding detection in low-light and foggy conditions, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that AGSENet outperforms existing methods, achieving IoU improvements of 2.03%, 0.62%, and 1.06% on the Puddle-1000, Foggy-Puddle, and Night-Puddle datasets, respectively, setting a new state-of-the-art in this field. Finally, we verified the algorithm’s reliability on edge computing devices. This work provides a valuable reference for proactive warning research in road traffic safety. The source code and datasets are placed in the https://github.com/Lyu-Dakang/AGSENet.


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    Title :

    AGSENet: A Robust Road Ponding Detection Method for Proactive Traffic Safety


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Ronghui (author) / Yang, Shangyu (author) / Lyu, Dakang (author) / Wang, Zihan (author) / Chen, Junzhou (author) / Ren, Yilong (author) / Gao, Bolin (author) / Lv, Zhihan (author)


    Publication date :

    2025-01-01


    Size :

    5232782 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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