車輛偵測一直是先進駕駛輔助系統及自駕車中最為核心的功能之一，過去廣泛的研究已經證明，先進的深度學習模型在各類公開的物體偵測資料集皆可以取得相當優異的表現。然而，這些模型往往都是二階段的，因此需要極高的運算資源，且難以在嵌入式系統上達到即時運算。在本篇論文中，我們提出了一個單階段的模型，其能在NVIDIA DrivePX2此嵌入式平台上達到即時車輛偵測。此外，我們提出了一個多階段、以整張影像為基礎的難例挖掘訓練策略，具體方式是在物體偵測模型的訓練過程，先用全部的資料進行訓練直到辨識率的提升收歛，再進一步的運用難例及IOU略為不足的訓練資料來微調網路，因而可達到更高的辨識率。

我們期待車輛偵測模型可以在日夜不同情境，皆達到準確的車輛偵測結果，然而車輛在白天與晚上的外觀極為不同。資料擴充在基於深度學習之物體偵測模型訓練中相當的常見，而這樣的技巧可用來提升模型的強健性以及跨領域適應性。以往資料擴充的方法通常是由一般的影像處理演算法所組成，運用這樣的方法所擴充的影像，影像多樣性通常較為局限。近年來，生成式對抗網路已被證明能產生多樣化的影像，然而，過去的模型往往在影像轉換過程難以維持物體結構在轉後前後的一致性。因此，本文提出了AugGAN這樣的生成式對抗網路模型，其可在日轉夜這種影像風格極為不同的轉換中，達到較佳的物體保存性。然而，給定一張日間影像，AugGAN所能轉換的夜間影像風格是恆定的，因此，我們進一步的提出多模態(Multimodal)版的AugGAN，其可將一日間影像轉換成複數張夜間影像，且這些影像具有不同的環境光亮度、影像中車燈的明暗程度不同，但車輛的車型、顏色、以及位置與轉換前是一致的。

Vehicle detection is a fundamental function required for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. Extensive research has shown that good performance can be obtained on public data sets by various state-of-the-art approaches, especially the deep learning methods. However, those methods are mostly two-stage approaches which unavoidably require extensive computing resources and are hard to be deployed on an embedded computing platform with real-time computing performance. In this thesis, we introduce a single-stage vehicle detector which can function in real-time on NVIDIA DrivePX2 platform and propose a multi-stage image-based online hard example mining framework which performs fine-tuning on hard examples and the ones with slightly-insufficient IOU that are considered true positives.

One expects that vehicles around host driver could be detected as accurately as possible all day, including day and night. However, vehicle’s appearance at daytime is quite different from its counterpart at nighttime. Data augmentation plays a crucial role in training a CNN-based detector for enhancing its cross-domain robustness. Most previous approaches were based on using a combination of general image-processing operations and could only produce limited plausible image variations. Recently, GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) based methods have shown compelling visual results. However, they are prone to fail at preserving image-objects and maintaining translation consistency when faced with large and complex domain shifts, such as day-to-night. We proposed AugGAN, a GAN-based data augmenter which could transform on-road driving images to a desired domain while image-objects would be well preserved. Although this model could transform on-road images from daytime to nighttime with better object preservation, the appearances of the transformed vehicles are seen all under the same ambient light levels. Therefore, we further propose Multimodal AugGAN, a multimodal structure-consistent GAN which is capable of transforming daytime vehicles to their nighttime counterparts with different ambient light levels and rear lamp conditions (on/off) but with the same vehicle type, color and locations.

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