Wenming Wang^1,2,3,*, Zhiquan Liu¹, Shumin Zhang¹, Guijiang Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 2517-2545, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.055184 - 18 November 2024

Abstract Advancements in the vehicular network technology enable real-time interconnection, data sharing, and intelligent cooperative driving among vehicles. However, malicious vehicles providing illegal and incorrect information can compromise the interests of vehicle users. Trust mechanisms serve as an effective solution to this issue. In recent years, many researchers have incorporated blockchain technology to manage and incentivize vehicle nodes, incurring significant overhead and storage requirements due to the frequent ingress and egress of vehicles within the area. In this paper, we propose a distributed vehicular network scheme based on trust scores. Specifically, the designed architecture partitions multiple More >

Naeem Raza¹, Muhammad Asif Habib¹, Mudassar Ahmad¹, Qaisar Abbas^2,*, Mutlaq B. Aldajani², Muhammad Ahsan Latif³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 911-931, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.055049 - 15 October 2024

Abstract Vision-based vehicle detection in adverse weather conditions such as fog, haze, and mist is a challenging research area in the fields of autonomous vehicles, collision avoidance, and Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled edge/fog computing traffic surveillance and monitoring systems. Efficient and cost-effective vehicle detection at high accuracy and speed in foggy weather is essential to avoiding road traffic collisions in real-time. To evaluate vision-based vehicle detection performance in foggy weather conditions, state-of-the-art Vehicle Detection in Adverse Weather Nature (DAWN) and Foggy Driving (FD) datasets are self-annotated using the YOLO LABEL tool and customized to four vehicle… More >

Yunxiang Liu, Haili Ma, Jianlin Zhu^*, Qiangbo Zhang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2963-2978, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053710 - 15 August 2024

Abstract To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of environmental perception for autonomous vehicles, we propose GDMNet, a unified multi-task perception network for autonomous driving, capable of performing drivable area segmentation, lane detection, and traffic object detection. Firstly, in the encoding stage, features are extracted, and Generalized Efficient Layer Aggregation Network (GELAN) is utilized to enhance feature extraction and gradient flow. Secondly, in the decoding stage, specialized detection heads are designed; the drivable area segmentation head employs DySample to expand feature maps, the lane detection head merges early-stage features and processes the output through the Focal Modulation More >

Asifa Mehmood Qureshi¹, Abdul Haleem Butt¹, Abdulwahab Alazeb², Naif Al Mudawi², Mohammad Alonazi³, Nouf Abdullah Almujally⁴, Ahmad Jalal¹, Hui Liu^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3315-3332, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052582 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Intelligent vehicle tracking and detection are crucial tasks in the realm of highway management. However, vehicles come in a range of sizes, which is challenging to detect, affecting the traffic monitoring system’s overall accuracy. Deep learning is considered to be an efficient method for object detection in vision-based systems. In this paper, we proposed a vision-based vehicle detection and tracking system based on a You Look Only Once version 5 (YOLOv5) detector combined with a segmentation technique. The model consists of six steps. In the first step, all the extracted traffic sequence images are subjected… More >

Yaoyao Du, Xiangkui Jiang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 303-327, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.046068 - 30 January 2024

Abstract To address the challenges of high complexity, poor real-time performance, and low detection rates for small target vehicles in existing vehicle object detection algorithms, this paper proposes a real-time lightweight architecture based on You Only Look Once (YOLO) v5m. Firstly, a lightweight upsampling operator called Content-Aware Reassembly of Features (CARAFE) is introduced in the feature fusion layer of the network to maximize the extraction of deep-level features for small target vehicles, reducing the missed detection rate and false detection rate. Secondly, a new prediction layer for tiny targets is added, and the feature fusion network… More >

Tianmin Deng^*, Xiyue Zhang, Xinxin Cheng

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 533-549, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044639 - 30 January 2024

Abstract Vehicle detection plays a crucial role in the field of autonomous driving technology. However, directly applying deep learning-based object detection algorithms to complex road scene images often leads to subpar performance and slow inference speeds in vehicle detection. Achieving a balance between accuracy and detection speed is crucial for real-time object detection in real-world road scenes. This paper proposes a high-precision and fast vehicle detector called the feature-guided bidirectional pyramid network (FBPN). Firstly, to tackle challenges like vehicle occlusion and significant background interference, the efficient feature filtering module (EFFM) is introduced into the deep network,… More >

A. Vikram¹, J. Akshya², Sultan Ahmad^3,4, L. Jerlin Rubini⁵, Seifedine Kadry^6,7,8, Jungeun Kim^9,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.1, pp. 115-130, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037928 - 26 January 2024

Abstract Traffic monitoring through remote sensing images (RSI) is considered an important research area in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). Vehicle counting systems must be simple enough to be implemented in real-time. With the fast expansion of road traffic, real-time vehicle counting becomes essential in constructing ITS. Compared with conventional technologies, the remote sensing-related technique for vehicle counting exhibits greater significance and considerable advantages in its flexibility, low cost, and high efficiency. But several techniques need help in balancing complexity and accuracy technique. Therefore, this article presents a deep learning-based vehicle detection and counting system for ITS More >

Wen Dong¹, Ziyan Liu^1,2,*, Mo Yang¹, Ying Wu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3551-3572, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.044967 - 26 December 2023

Abstract Autonomous driving technology has made a lot of outstanding achievements with deep learning, and the vehicle detection and classification algorithm has become one of the critical technologies of autonomous driving systems. The vehicle instance segmentation can perform instance-level semantic parsing of vehicle information, which is more accurate and reliable than object detection. However, the existing instance segmentation algorithms still have the problems of poor mask prediction accuracy and low detection speed. Therefore, this paper proposes an advanced real-time instance segmentation model named FIR-YOLACT, which fuses the ICIoU (Improved Complete Intersection over Union) and Res2Net for… More >

Huabin Wang¹, Ruichao Mo², Yuping Chen³, Weiwei Lin^2,4,*, Minxian Xu⁵, Bo Liu^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.2, pp. 2025-2047, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026910 - 26 June 2023

Abstract Nowadays, the rapid development of edge computing has driven an increasing number of deep learning applications deployed at the edge of the network, such as pedestrian and vehicle detection, to provide efficient intelligent services to mobile users. However, as the accuracy requirements continue to increase, the components of deep learning models for pedestrian and vehicle detection, such as YOLOv4, become more sophisticated and the computing resources required for model training are increasing dramatically, which in turn leads to significant challenges in achieving effective deployment on resource-constrained edge devices while ensuring the high accuracy performance. For… More >

Shuja Ali¹, Ahmad Jalal¹, Mohammed Hamad Alatiyyah², Khaled Alnowaiser³, Jeongmin Park^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 1249-1265, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038114 - 08 June 2023

Abstract Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to monitor traffic in a variety of settings, including security, traffic surveillance, and traffic control. Numerous academics have been drawn to this topic because of the challenges and the large variety of applications. This paper proposes a new and efficient vehicle detection and tracking system that is based on road extraction and identifying objects on it. It is inspired by existing detection systems that comprise stationary data collectors such as induction loops and stationary cameras that have a limited field of view and are not mobile. The goal… More >