Vehicle Detection and Classification based on Deep Neural Network for Intelligent Transportation Applications

Abstract

This paper proposes an optimized vehicle detection and classification method based on deep learning technology for intelligent transportation applications. We optimize the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture by fine-tuning the existing CNN architecture for the intelligent transportation applications. The proposed design achieves the accuracy of miss rate around 10% when FPPI is 0.1. Realized on nVidia Titan-X GPU, the proposed design can reach the performance about 720x480 video under different weather condition (day, night, raining) at 25fps. The proposed model can achieve 90% accuracy on three target vehicle classes including small vehicles (Sedan, SUV, Van), big vehicles (Bus) and Trucks.