DRIVING-SCENE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS: YOLOV4 ALGORITHM

Abstract: The objective of the thesis is to explore an approach of classifying and localizing different objects from driving-scene images using YOLOv4 algorithm trained on custom dataset.  YOLOv4, a one-stage object detection algorithm, aims to have better accuracy and speed. The deep learning (convolutional) network based classification model was trained and validated on a subject of SODA10M dataset annotated with six different classes of objects (Car, Cyclist, Truck, Bus, Pedestrian, and Tricycle), which are the most seen objects on the road. Another model based on YOLOv3 (the previous version of YOLOv4) will be trained on the same dataset and the performance will be compared with the YOLOv4 model. Both algorithms are fast but have difficulty detecting some objects, especially the small objects. Larger quantities of properly annotated training data can improve the algorithm's performance accuracy.