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M3E-Yolo: A New Lightweight Network for Traffic Sign Recognition

19 Jan 202319th International Computer Conference on Wavelet Active Media Technology and Information Processing (ICCWAMTIP) 2023 1archive 2025-07-28

Guo Haoran, Li Fan, Kuang Ping, Xiong Gang

Traffic sign recognition is committed to ensuring the safety of automatic driving. Inspired by YOLOv5, this paper proposes a new model to solve the problem of poor balance between the accuracy and efficiency of existing algorithms in traffic sign recognition. Firstly, the lightweight network MobileNetV3 is introduced for feature extraction to reduce the number of parameters. Secondly, attention mechanism module is introduced to enhance channel features, which makes up for the reduced accuracy caused by the simplified model. Experiments show that the mAP value trained by our model on the Chinese traffic sign dataset reaches 93.6%, which is similar to the level of YOLOv5, and the number of parameters is less than a quarter of YOLOv5.

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Traffic Sign DetectionTraffic Sign Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Traffic Sign Detection CCTSDB2021 M3E-Yolo mAP@0.5 93.4 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionAverage PoolingBatch NormalizationConvolutionDense ConnectionsDepthwise ConvolutionDepthwise Separable ConvolutionDropoutGlobal Average PoolingHard SwishInverted Residual BlockPointwise ConvolutionReLUReLU6Sigmoid ActivationSqueeze-and-Excitation Block

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