Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2023, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 55-61.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2023.05.009

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UAV Detection Based on Slim-YOLOv4 with Embedded Device

ZHENG Yuheng,FU Dongxiang   

  1. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093,China
  • Received:2021-11-26 Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-05-17
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(61605114);National Natural Science Foundation of China(61703277)

Abstract:

In order to realize real-time detection of UAV on resource-constrained embedded devices, this study proposes a lightweight detection network, Slim-YOLOv4, based on YOLOv4. In this network, Ghostnet is used to replace the main feature extraction part of the original YOLOv4, the 3×3 convolution in the feature fusion part is replaced by the deep detachability convolution and the activation function in the deep detachability convolution is optimized to reduce the number of parameters and computation of the network and accelerate the convergence of the network. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the Slim-YOLOv4 is 91.6%, which is 1.6% lower than that of the original YOLOv4, but the weight file of original YOLOv4 is up to 250 MB. On the premise of not affecting the robustness, the weight file size of Slim-YOLOv4 is only 42 MB, which is better than the 108 MB of Fan-RCNN model and 53 MB of Mobilenetv3 model. The number of images processed per second by the proposed method reaches 31.2 frames·s-1 on PCS and 37.6 frames·s-1 on embedded devices, proving that the proposed method can be deployed on embedded devices for real-time detection of UAVs.

Key words: lightweight network, YOLOv4, inspection drone, embedded platform, deep learning, Ghostnet, ELU, real-time detection

CLC Number: 

  • TP391