Object detection plays an important role in underground intelligent vehicles and intelligent transportation systems. Due to the uneven light in underground mining scenarios, infrared cameras are one of the typical onboard sensors for environmental perception. Although object detection has been studied for decades, it still confronts the challenge of detecting infrared objects in underground mines. The contributing factors include weak and small objects in infrared images and similar environments in mining scenarios. In this paper, a Feature Enhancement and Guided Network (FEGNet) is proposed to address these problems. Based on the characteristics of infrared images, the feature enhancement module (FEM) preserves the image details from global and local perspectives to improve the discrimination of weak and small objects. To tackle the problem of overfitting caused by similar environments, a receptive-field-guided (RFG) backbone is proposed to learn multi-scale context and spatial information. The experimental results on the underground mining (UM) dataset demonstrate that the mAP of the proposed FEGNet achieves 86.1%, which is 4.6% higher than the state-of-the-art CNN-based network YOLOv7.


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    Title :

    FEGNet: A feature enhancement and guided network for infrared object detection in underground mines


    Contributors:
    Huang, Lisha (author) / Zhang, Xi (author) / Yu, Miao (author) / Yang, Songyue (author) / Cao, Xiao (author) / Meng, Junzhou (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-07-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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