Ghost module.

Hazardous chemical vehicles are specialized vehicles used for transporting flammable gases, medical waste, and liquid chemicals, among other dangerous chemical substances. During their transportation, there are risks of fire, explosion, and leakage of hazardous materials, posing serious threats to human safety and the environment. To mitigate these possible hazards and decrease their probability, this study proposes a lightweight object detection method for hazardous chemical vehicles based on the YOLOv7-tiny model.The method first introduces a lightweight feature extraction structure, E-GhostV2 network, into the trunk and neck of the model to achieve effective feature extraction while reducing the burden of the model. Additionally, the PConv is used in the model’s backbone to effectively reduce redundant computations and memory access, thereby enhancing efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. Furthermore, to address the problem of performance degradation caused by overemphasizing high-quality samples, the model adopts the WIoU loss function, which balances the training effect of high-quality and low-quality samples, enhancing the model’s robustness and generalization performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the improved model achieves satisfactory detection accuracy while reducing the number of model parameters, providing robust support for theoretical research and practical applications in the field of hazardous chemical vehicle object detection.</div

Training results of YOLOv7-tiny model and G-YOLO model on hazardous materials vehicle dataset.

(a) [email protected] Curves Comparison; (b) [email protected]: .95 Curves Comparison.</p

Validation instances of YOLOv7-tiny model and G-YOLO model on cars detection dataset.

(a) illustrates the validation instances of the YOLOv7-tiny model; (b) illustrates the validation instances of the G-YOLO model.</p

G-YOLO modeling framework.

Hazardous chemical vehicles are specialized vehicles used for transporting flammable gases, medical waste, and liquid chemicals, among other dangerous chemical substances. During their transportation, there are risks of fire, explosion, and leakage of hazardous materials, posing serious threats to human safety and the environment. To mitigate these possible hazards and decrease their probability, this study proposes a lightweight object detection method for hazardous chemical vehicles based on the YOLOv7-tiny model.The method first introduces a lightweight feature extraction structure, E-GhostV2 network, into the trunk and neck of the model to achieve effective feature extraction while reducing the burden of the model. Additionally, the PConv is used in the model’s backbone to effectively reduce redundant computations and memory access, thereby enhancing efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. Furthermore, to address the problem of performance degradation caused by overemphasizing high-quality samples, the model adopts the WIoU loss function, which balances the training effect of high-quality and low-quality samples, enhancing the model’s robustness and generalization performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the improved model achieves satisfactory detection accuracy while reducing the number of model parameters, providing robust support for theoretical research and practical applications in the field of hazardous chemical vehicle object detection.</div

Validation instances of YOLOv7-tiny model and G-YOLO model on hazardous materials dataset.

(a) shows the validation instances of the YOLOv7-tiny model; (b) shows the validation instances of the G-YOLO model. Reprinted from [] under a CC BY license, with permission from [Pengcheng Zhu], original copyright [2023].</p

Comparison of ablation experiment results of models on hazardous chemical vehicle dataset.

Comparison of ablation experiment results of models on hazardous chemical vehicle dataset.</p

Experimental parameter configuration.

Hazardous chemical vehicles are specialized vehicles used for transporting flammable gases, medical waste, and liquid chemicals, among other dangerous chemical substances. During their transportation, there are risks of fire, explosion, and leakage of hazardous materials, posing serious threats to human safety and the environment. To mitigate these possible hazards and decrease their probability, this study proposes a lightweight object detection method for hazardous chemical vehicles based on the YOLOv7-tiny model.The method first introduces a lightweight feature extraction structure, E-GhostV2 network, into the trunk and neck of the model to achieve effective feature extraction while reducing the burden of the model. Additionally, the PConv is used in the model’s backbone to effectively reduce redundant computations and memory access, thereby enhancing efficiency and feature extraction capabilities. Furthermore, to address the problem of performance degradation caused by overemphasizing high-quality samples, the model adopts the WIoU loss function, which balances the training effect of high-quality and low-quality samples, enhancing the model’s robustness and generalization performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the improved model achieves satisfactory detection accuracy while reducing the number of model parameters, providing robust support for theoretical research and practical applications in the field of hazardous chemical vehicle object detection.</div

Training results of YOLOv7-tiny model and G-YOLO model on hazardous materials vehicle dataset.

(a) Precision Curves Comparison; (b) Recall Curves Comparison.</p

Intersection and juxtaposition of anchor frame and target frame.

Intersection and juxtaposition of anchor frame and target frame.</p

Validation instances of YOLOv7-tiny model and G-YOLO model on traffic detection dataset.

(a) illustrates the validation instances of the YOLOv7-tiny model; (b) illustrates the validation instances of the G-YOLO model.</p