Journal of Xidian University ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (5): 137-144.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2022.05.016

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Lightweight object detection algorithm based on the improved CenterNet

LI Yueyan(),CHENG Peitao(),DU Shuxing()   

  1. School of Mechanical Electro Engineering,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
  • Received:2021-07-06 Online:2022-10-20 Published:2022-11-17

Abstract:

Due to the complex structure,there are a large number of parameters in the CenterNet,which leads to a high computational complexity and long inference time.To solve this problem,a CenterNet-encoder algorithm is proposed for lightweight object detection.First,the fire module is used in the backbone to reduce the number of parameters and increase the calculation speed.Then,an encoding layer is utilized between the backbone and the head,which can increase the receptive field and obtain more accurate corners and center points for heatmaps.Finally,MSE loss is employed in bounding box regression,which accelerates the convergence and further improves the performance.The proposed algorithm achieves 40.5 AP on the MS-COCO test-dev benchmark with 47M parameters.Under the AMD5900X\32GB\RTX3090 environment configuration,the detection speed reaches 18FPS.Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method is better than other lightweight methods in the number of parameters,inference time and detection accuracy.Although the precision of the proposed method is slightly lower than that of the CenterNet,the number of parameters is reduced by 77.6%,and the inference speed is increased by 69.3%.

Key words: fire module, lightweight, encoder, object detection

CLC Number: 

  • TP391