TITLE:
A Dangerous Driving Behaviors Detection Method for Car Driver Based on Improved YOLOv7 Model
AUTHORS:
Md Tariqul Islam, Akash Joarder, Md Niaz Ahmed
KEYWORDS:
Dangerous Driving Behaviors, Object Detection, YOLOv7, Separable Convolution, CA Attention Mechanism
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.12 No.12,
December
31,
2024
ABSTRACT: The basic theory of YOLO series object detection algorithms is discussed, the dangerous driving behavior dataset is collected and produced, and then the YOLOv7 network is introduced in detail, the deep separable convolution and CA attention mechanism are introduced, the YOLOv7 bounding box loss function and clustering algorithm are optimized, and the DB-YOLOv7 network structure is constructed. In the first stage of the experiment, the PASCAL VOC public dataset was utilized for pre-training. A comparative analysis was conducted to assess the recognition accuracy and inference time before and after the proposed improvements. The experimental results demonstrated an increase of 1.4% in the average recognition accuracy, alongside a reduction in the inference time by 4 ms. Subsequently, a model for the recognition of dangerous driving behaviors was trained using a specialized dangerous driving behavior dataset. A series of experiments were performed to evaluate the efficacy of the DB-YOLOv7 algorithm in this context. The findings indicate a significant enhancement in detection performance, with a 4% improvement in accuracy compared to the baseline network. Furthermore, the model’s inference time was reduced by 20%, from 25 ms to 20 ms. These results substantiate the effectiveness of the DB-YOLOv7 recognition algorithm for detecting dangerous driving behaviors, providing comprehensive validation of its practical applicability.