Railway foreign object tracking and detection with spatial positioning and feature generalization enhancement

The existing deep learning foreign object tracking and detection algorithm is easily affected by complex environments and target occlusion, resulting in problems such as missed detection and low detection accuracy. A railway foreign object tracking and detection algorithm with spatial positioning and feature generalization enhancement is proposed. First, a multi-scale cascade improved GhostNet feature network is proposed to improve the feature extraction capability of infrared targets. Secondly, the spatial positioning and feature generalization enhancement module is designed by using the spatial position positioning and generalized morphological information of foreign objects to enhance the detection accuracy of targets with position movement and tracking trajectory changesin complex scenes. Then, a pyramid prediction network is constructed to obtain the detection anchor frame, type and confidence information of infrared railway foreign objects. Finally, by improving the DeepSORT tracking algorithm with improved category and confidence display, combined with Kalman filtering and Hungarian algorithm, railway foreign object tracking and detection in infrared weak light environment is realized. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a tracking and detection accuracy of railway foreign objects 83.3%, with an average detection rate of 11.3 frames per second. Compared with the comparison method, the proposed method has higher detection accuracy and has better performance in railway foreign object tracking and detection in infrared weak light scenes.