ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection

Human detection is a special application of object recognition and is considered one of the greatest challenges in computer vision. It is the starting point of a number of applications, including public safety and security surveillance around the world. Human detection technologies have advanced sig...

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Main Authors: Sumit, Shahriar Shakir, Awang Rambli, Dayang Rohaya, Mirjalili, Seyedali, Ejaz, Muhammad Mudassir, Miah, Md Saef Ullah
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author Sumit, Shahriar Shakir
Awang Rambli, Dayang Rohaya
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Ejaz, Muhammad Mudassir
Miah, Md Saef Ullah
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description Human detection is a special application of object recognition and is considered one of the greatest challenges in computer vision. It is the starting point of a number of applications, including public safety and security surveillance around the world. Human detection technologies have advanced significantly in recent years due to the rapid development of deep learning techniques. Despite recent advances, we still need to adopt the best network-design practices that enable compact sizes, deep designs, and fast training times while maintaining high accuracies. In this article, we propose ReSTiNet, a novel compressed convolutional neural network that addresses the issues of size, detection speed, and accuracy. Following SqueezeNet, ReSTiNet adopts the fire modules by examining the number of fire modules and their placement within the model to reduce the number of parameters and thus the model size. The residual connections within the fire modules in ReSTiNet are interpolated and finely constructed to improve feature propagation and ensure the largest possible information flow in the model, with the goal of further improving the proposed ReSTiNet in terms of detection speed and accuracy. The proposed algorithm downsizes the previously popular Tiny-YOLO model and improves the following features: (1) faster detection speed; (2) compact model size; (3) solving the overfitting problems; and (4) superior performance than other lightweight models such as MobileNet and SqueezeNet in terms of mAP. The proposed model was trained and tested using MS COCO and Pascal VOC datasets. The resulting ReSTiNet model is 10.7 MB in size (almost five times smaller than Tiny-YOLO), but it achieves an mAP of 63.74% on PASCAL VOC and 27.3% on MS COCO datasets using Tesla k80 GPU.
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spelling ump-374422023-08-22T07:47:01Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37442/ ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection Sumit, Shahriar Shakir Awang Rambli, Dayang Rohaya Mirjalili, Seyedali Ejaz, Muhammad Mudassir Miah, Md Saef Ullah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Human detection is a special application of object recognition and is considered one of the greatest challenges in computer vision. It is the starting point of a number of applications, including public safety and security surveillance around the world. Human detection technologies have advanced significantly in recent years due to the rapid development of deep learning techniques. Despite recent advances, we still need to adopt the best network-design practices that enable compact sizes, deep designs, and fast training times while maintaining high accuracies. In this article, we propose ReSTiNet, a novel compressed convolutional neural network that addresses the issues of size, detection speed, and accuracy. Following SqueezeNet, ReSTiNet adopts the fire modules by examining the number of fire modules and their placement within the model to reduce the number of parameters and thus the model size. The residual connections within the fire modules in ReSTiNet are interpolated and finely constructed to improve feature propagation and ensure the largest possible information flow in the model, with the goal of further improving the proposed ReSTiNet in terms of detection speed and accuracy. The proposed algorithm downsizes the previously popular Tiny-YOLO model and improves the following features: (1) faster detection speed; (2) compact model size; (3) solving the overfitting problems; and (4) superior performance than other lightweight models such as MobileNet and SqueezeNet in terms of mAP. The proposed model was trained and tested using MS COCO and Pascal VOC datasets. The resulting ReSTiNet model is 10.7 MB in size (almost five times smaller than Tiny-YOLO), but it achieves an mAP of 63.74% on PASCAL VOC and 27.3% on MS COCO datasets using Tesla k80 GPU. MDPI 2022-09 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37442/1/ReSTiNet_On%20improving%20the%20performance%20of%20tiny-yolo-based%20cnn%20architecture%20for%20applications%20in%20human%20detection.pdf Sumit, Shahriar Shakir and Awang Rambli, Dayang Rohaya and Mirjalili, Seyedali and Ejaz, Muhammad Mudassir and Miah, Md Saef Ullah (2022) ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12 (9331). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2076-3417. (Published) https://doi.org/10.3390/app12189331 https://doi.org/10.3390/app12189331
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Sumit, Shahriar Shakir
Awang Rambli, Dayang Rohaya
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Ejaz, Muhammad Mudassir
Miah, Md Saef Ullah
ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title_full ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title_fullStr ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title_full_unstemmed ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title_short ReSTiNet : On improving the performance of Tiny-YOLO-Based CNN architecture for applications in human detection
title_sort restinet : on improving the performance of tiny-yolo-based cnn architecture for applications in human detection
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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