Traffic scene recognition based on deep CNN and VLAD spatial pyramids

Fang Yu Wu, Shi Yang Yan, Jeremy S. Smith, Bai Ling Zhang

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Abstract

Traffic scene recognition is an important and challenging issue in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have achieved great success in many applications, including scene classification. The remarkable representational learning capability of CNN remains to be further explored for solving real-world problems. Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (VLAD) encoding has also proved to be a powerful method in catching global contextual information. In this paper, we attempted to solve the traffic scene recognition problem by combining the features representational capabilities of CNN with the VLAD encoding scheme. More specifically, the CNN features of image patches generated by a region proposal algorithm are encoded by applying VLAD, which subsequently represent an image in a compact representation. To catch the spatial information, spatial pyramids are exploited to encode CNN features. We experimented with a dataset of 10 categories of traffic scenes, with satisfactory categorization performances.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2017 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages156-161
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538604069
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Nov 2017
Event16th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2017 - Ningbo, China
Duration: 9 Jul 201712 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2017 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2017
Volume1

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNingbo
Period9/07/1712/07/17

Keywords

  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Traffic scene recognition
  • Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors encoding

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