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Owing to the low brightness, low contrast, and high labeling difficulty of night-time vehicle images, night-time vehicle model recognition (NVMR) faces significant challenges. To address these challenges, this paper proposes the Night-time Vehicle Model Recognition (DA-NVMR) method based on domain adaptation theory and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The proposed method realizes the NVMR based on the VMR model trained on daytime vehicle images. In DA-NVMR, a Domain Adaption Network (DANet) is designed to find the mapping between night-time vehicle images and daytime vehicle images. The DANet consists of two modules: the decomposition module and conversion module. The decomposition module decomposes the vehicle images into reflectance images and illumination images. The conversion module realizes the conversion between the illumination of the night-time and daytime vehicle images. Experiments based on the simulated night-time vehicle dataset and real night-time vehicle dataset confirmed that DA-NVMR can effectively identify night-time vehicle models. Compared with other low-light image enhancement methods and domain adaptation methods, the Top-1 recognition accuracy of the proposed method improved by at least 2% and 1%, respectively.
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This study was partly supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62076086 and No.61906061), Key Research and Development Program in Anhui Province (No.202004d07020008), and Scientific and Technological Achievements Cultivation Project of Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of HFUT (No. IMIPY2021022).
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Yu, Y., Chen, W., Chen, F. et al. Night-time vehicle model recognition based on domain adaptation. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 9577–9596 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15447-1
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