Low Illumination Enhancement For Object Detection In Self-Driving

摘要

Object detection plays an important role in the field of self-driving. Illumination has a great impact on object detection, but most of the current methods do not solve the problem of object detection in poor light environment well. We propose a network that can optimize the image conversion which is based on the Cycle Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN). We redesign the discriminator network of Cycle-GAN, add additional discriminators, optimize multiple parts of the network such as loss functions, and add object detection networks after converting the network. The Robot Car dataset of Oxford University is utilized to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results proved that our method can significantly improve the detection accuracy and increase the detected object number in low illumination environment.