Authors: Bilel Benjdira,Taha Khursheed,Anis Koubaa,Adel Ammar,Kais Ouni
ArXiv: 1812.10968
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Abstract URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10968v1
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being used in surveillance and
traffic monitoring thanks to their high mobility and ability to cover areas at
different altitudes and locations. One of the major challenges is to use aerial
images to accurately detect cars and count them in real-time for traffic
monitoring purposes. Several deep learning techniques were recently proposed
based on convolution neural network (CNN) for real-time classification and
recognition in computer vision. However, their performance depends on the
scenarios where they are used. In this paper, we investigate the performance of
two state-of-the-art CNN algorithms, namely Faster R-CNN and YOLOv3, in the
context of car detection from aerial images. We trained and tested these two
models on a large car dataset taken from UAVs. We demonstrated in this paper
that YOLOv3 outperforms Faster R-CNN in sensitivity and processing time,
although they are comparable in the precision metric.