학술논문

Deep fully convolutional networks with random data augmentation for enhanced generalization in road detection
Document Type
Conference
Source
2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on. :366-371 Oct, 2017
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Roads
Training
Conferences
Agriculture
Interpolation
Adaptation models
Distortion
CNN
Deep Learning
Road Detection
Random Data Augmentation
Multistep Up-sampling
Language
ISSN
2153-0017
Abstract
In this paper, a Deep Learning system for accurate road detection is proposed using the ResNet-101 network with a fully convolutional architecture and multiple upscaling steps for image interpolation. It is demonstrated that significant generalization gains in the learning process are attained by randomly generating augmented training data using several geometric transformations and pixelwise changes, such as affine and perspective transformations, mirroring, image cropping, distortions, blur, noise, and color changes. In addition, this paper shows that the use of a 4-step upscaling strategy provides optimal learning results as compared to other similar techniques that perform data upscaling based on shallow layers with scarce representation of the scene data. The complete system is trained and tested on data from the KITTI benchmark and besides it is also tested on images recorded on the Campus of the University of Alcala (Spain). The improvement attained after performing data augmentation and conducting a number of training variants is really encouraging, showing the path to follow for enhanced learning generalization of road detection systems with a view to real deployment in self-driving cars.