1.School of Electrical Engineering,North China University of Science and Technology;2.School of Electrical Engineering and Automation,Tianjin University of Technology
A multi-scale feature fusion based traffic sign detection algorithm is proposed to address the problem of poor performance of existing object detection algorithms in detecting small target traffic signs. Firstly, a new cascaded multi-scale feature fusion network was designed, which fully utilizes the multi-scale sequence feature fusion structure and triple feature encoding module, enabling the network to better integrate the detailed and global features of traffic signs. Secondly, incorporating deformable attention mechanisms into the backbone network enables the model to focus on relevant regions and capture richer image features. Finally, the use of the Inner IoU loss function improved the generalization performance of the model. The experimental results on the CCTSDB dataset show that the average accuracy of the improved model is 55.3%, which is 3.2% higher than YOLOv8s. In addition, the performance on the TT100K and VOC datasets highlights the excellent generalization performance of the model.