Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8

With the rapid increase in transportation pressure, the demand for efficient traffic recognition and tracking systems is growing. Traditional methods have certain limitations when dealing with complex situations in traffic scenes, such as large weights and insufficient detection accuracies, et al. T...

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Main Authors: Yunxiang Liu, Shujun Shen
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description With the rapid increase in transportation pressure, the demand for efficient traffic recognition and tracking systems is growing. Traditional methods have certain limitations when dealing with complex situations in traffic scenes, such as large weights and insufficient detection accuracies, et al. Therefore, we propose a novel method based on YOLOv8n. Firstly we introduced SCC_Detect based on SCConv on the detection head to reduce the computation of redundant features. Then we replaced the convolutional kernel with a dual convolutional kernel to construct a lightweight deep neural network. Subsequently, the Focaler-EIoU loss function is introduced to improve the accuracy. The BotSORT tracker is embedded in the period of inference, which achieves more accurate and stable recognition and tracking results in the traffic scene. The experimental results show that the proposed model reduces parameters and weight by approximately 36.5% and 25% respectively at the expense of only 0.2% [email protected] compared with YOLOv8n on the UA-DETRAC dataset. In terms of tracking, MOTA, IDF1 and MOTP of the BoTSORT algorithm on the test video were superior to those of DeepSORT and ByteTrack. The accuracy was improved, and the number of lost tracks was reduced. It has a high practical value and application prospects in traffic detection and deployment.
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spelling doaj-art-9183036b7fc04590b13d35f6a5cf1bd52025-02-12T00:01:35ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113247932480310.1109/ACCESS.2025.353855610870217Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8Yunxiang Liu0https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2736-9524Shujun Shen1https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0926-4429Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, ChinaDepartment of Computer Information Science and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, ChinaWith the rapid increase in transportation pressure, the demand for efficient traffic recognition and tracking systems is growing. Traditional methods have certain limitations when dealing with complex situations in traffic scenes, such as large weights and insufficient detection accuracies, et al. Therefore, we propose a novel method based on YOLOv8n. Firstly we introduced SCC_Detect based on SCConv on the detection head to reduce the computation of redundant features. Then we replaced the convolutional kernel with a dual convolutional kernel to construct a lightweight deep neural network. Subsequently, the Focaler-EIoU loss function is introduced to improve the accuracy. The BotSORT tracker is embedded in the period of inference, which achieves more accurate and stable recognition and tracking results in the traffic scene. The experimental results show that the proposed model reduces parameters and weight by approximately 36.5% and 25% respectively at the expense of only 0.2% [email protected] compared with YOLOv8n on the UA-DETRAC dataset. In terms of tracking, MOTA, IDF1 and MOTP of the BoTSORT algorithm on the test video were superior to those of DeepSORT and ByteTrack. The accuracy was improved, and the number of lost tracks was reduced. It has a high practical value and application prospects in traffic detection and deployment.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10870217/Vehicle trackingmulti-object tracklightweight modelYOLOv8vehicle detectionBotSORT
spellingShingle Yunxiang Liu
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Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
IEEE Access
Vehicle tracking
multi-object track
lightweight model
YOLOv8
vehicle detection
BotSORT
title Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
title_full Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
title_fullStr Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
title_full_unstemmed Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
title_short Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Improved YOLOv8
title_sort vehicle detection and tracking based on improved yolov8
topic Vehicle tracking
multi-object track
lightweight model
YOLOv8
vehicle detection
BotSORT
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10870217/
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