Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 13, 131009(2019)

Real-Time Object Detection for Millimeter-Wave Images Based on Improved Faster Regions with Convolutional Neural Networks

Bingji Hou1,2,3, Minghui Yang1, and Xiaowei Sun1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Key Laboratory of Terahertz Solid Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3 School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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    An efficient and fast convolution neural network for millimeter-wave images that uses deconvolution and a shortcut connection is proposed. The proposed network retains the low-order fine-grained features of the image and significantly improves the detection speed to 27 frame/s from 9 frame/s of original frame. The RCNN (Regions with Convolutional Neural Networks) part of the Faster RCNN is removed. To achieve better network convergence, the initial candidate box size is designed based on thought clustering. The online hard example mining is applied to optimize the loss function of the Faster RCNN such that the imbalance problem between positive and negative samples in millimeter wave images is solved and the training speed is improved significantly. By using the proposed algorithm, the accuracy of 87.6% and the detection rate of 81.2% are obtained on the test set. Compared with mainstream algorithms, the proposed algorithm improves the F1 score by approximately 5%.

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    Bingji Hou, Minghui Yang, Xiaowei Sun. Real-Time Object Detection for Millimeter-Wave Images Based on Improved Faster Regions with Convolutional Neural Networks[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(13): 131009

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Dec. 17, 2018

    Accepted: Feb. 17, 2019

    Published Online: Jul. 11, 2019

    The Author Email: Sun Xiaowei (xwsun@mail.sim.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.131009

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