Real-Time Object Detection and Localization for Autonomous Driving

 The term “object detection” refers to a technology that enables humans to recognise specific types of things present in visual media. One of the important applications of the technique is autonomous driving cars. In the application, the activity is to detect the various objects present in the single image frame. Examples of objects belonging to multiple classes are trucks, bikes, persons, cars, dogs, and cats. For this task, we use object localization and classification as we have to locate multiple objects in the image. Various techniques available in the market based on Deep Learning use inbuilt architectures such as VGG-16 and InceptionV3. Using these techniques to solve the problem is a reasonable solution but the response time from these architectures may not be feasible as the autonomous vehicles have to react in less than 0.02 milliseconds in order to avoid collisions of all sorts. So using YOLO, we simply predict the classes and the bounded co-ordinates of the object in a single run of the model and detect multiple objects from the image rather than focusing only on the interested regions of the image as formerly employed by various models. YOLO is fast and accurate with the help of Convolution Neural Networks and is less likely to produce localization errors.

Keywords: Object localization, Autonomous driving, Convolution neural networks.