Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 8019: A Method for All-Weather Unstructured Road Drivable Area Detection Based on Improved Lite-Mobilenetv2

Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 8019: A Method for All-Weather Unstructured Road Drivable Area Detection Based on Improved Lite-Mobilenetv2

Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app14178019

Authors: Qingyu Wang Chenchen Lyu Yanyan Li

This paper presents an all-weather drivable area detection method based on deep learning, addressing the challenges of recognizing unstructured roads and achieving clear environmental perception under adverse weather conditions in current autonomous driving systems. The method enhances the Lite-Mobilenetv2 feature extraction module and integrates a pyramid pooling module with an attention mechanism. Moreover, it introduces a defogging preprocessing module suitable for real-time detection, which transforms foggy images into clear ones for accurate drivable area detection. The experiments adopt a transfer learning-based training approach, training an all-road-condition semantic segmentation model on four datasets that include both structured and unstructured roads, with and without fog. This strategy reduces computational load and enhances detection accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate a 3.84% efficiency improvement compared to existing algorithms.