Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 8, 20250158(2025)

Research on laser active detection method for cat-eye targets based on spatial context

Tianpeng XIE1,2, Chunxiao WANG1, Yan JIANG1, Chenghao JIANG1, and Jingguo ZHU1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    Self-developed laser active detection system
    Overall structure of the proposed DFSC algorithm
    Adaptive iterative Otsu method
    The spatial distribution characteristics of gray-level in cat-eye target
    Improved YOLOv8 network architecture
    C2f_DCNv3 architecture
    (a) Algorithm results and ground truth annotations; (b) Illustration of occlusion ratio calculation
    Typical samples in the test set
    Distribution targets number and size
    (a) Otsu model binarization result; (b) Fixed model binarization result; (c) Ours1 model binarization result
    (a) Detection results in outdoor scenarios; (b) Detection results in complex environments; (c) Special case of cat-eye target occlusion by vehicle
    • Table 1. Ablation experiments

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      Table 1. Ablation experiments

      ModelAI-OtsuFeature fusionSpatial contextImproved YOLOv8RecallMRPrecisionFPRTime/ms
      Otsu49.4%50.6%41.0%59.0%6.2
      Fixed97.2%2.8%45.7%54.3%4.8
      Ours197.2%2.8%47.0%53.0%7.5
      Ours297.2%2.8%49.4%50.6%8.2
      Ours398.3%1.7%67.6%32.4%8.3
      DFSC98.9%1.1%74.5%25.5%8.3
    • Table 2. Algorithm comparison

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      Table 2. Algorithm comparison

      ModelRef.[6]Ref.[8]Ref.[9]YOLOv5sYOLOv5mDFSC
      Recall90.6%92.2%91.7%85.7%90.1%98.9%
      MR9.4%7.8%8.3%14.3%9.9%1.1%
      Precision48.5%47.8%49.0%42.5%46.4%74.5%
      FPR51.5%52.251.0%57.5%53.6%25.5%
      Time/ms5.25.64.97.315.08.3
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    Paper Information

    Category: 光电测量

    Received: Mar. 9, 2025

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 29, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20250158

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