Vehicle and Driver Detection on Highway Based on Cascade R-CNN

Vehicle and driver detection in the highway scene has been a research hotspot in the field of object detection in recent years, and it is still a challenging problem in the research of traffic order and road safety. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end vehicle and driver detection method named VDDNet which is based on Cascade R-CNN and SENet. By introducing FPN structure and SENet attention mechanism in the backbone, the ability of the model to learn effective features is enhanced. It can improve the accuracy of detection in difficult scenes such as weak light, partial occlusion, and low picture resolution. The test results based on the database of highway traffic vehicle and drivers constructed by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department. It shows that the detection method has the AP rate of 91.3% and the Recall rate of 92.4%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method in complex highway environments.