Lightweight container number recognition based on deep learning

Tao Liu (), Xianqing Wu () and Fang Li ()
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Tao Liu: School of Information Science and Engineering
Xianqing Wu: School of Information Science and Engineering
Fang Li: School of Information Science and Engineering

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2025, vol. 16, issue 3, No 11, 1058-1071

Abstract: Abstract The efficient recognition of container number in a complex natural environment is of great significance in container transportation process. However, the number of parameters and calculation amount of the algorithms based on deep learning are huge, making it difficult to apply them to the low-cost equipment. In response to this challenge, we propose an improved lightweight algorithm ACCR-YOLOv7 based on YOLOv7-Tiny, which is suitable for container number recognition in various complex environments. First, we propose a lightweight extended efficient layer aggregation networks (ELAN), namely G-ELAN, to enhance the feature extraction capability. Secondly, an efficient Spatial Pyramid Pooling Module (ESPPM) is designed to increase the receptive field of the network for detecting targets. In addition, we redesign the original neck structure by reducing the output layer that is insensitive to large targets and replacing all $$3\times 3$$ 3 × 3 convolutions with lightweight GSconv convolutions, which reduces the number of parameters while improving the accuracy. Finally, a Simple, Parameter-Free Attention Module (SimAM) is embedded into the backbone network and the neck network to eliminate the background noise and conflicting information. In the experimental results, our improved network achieved impressive mAP scores of 99.2% and 97.33% on the container number number dataset and letter dataset, respectively. This is an improvement of 1.73% and 0.15% compared to the original YOLOv7-Tiny network. More importantly, the Params, GFlops, and Time are reduced by 27.48%, 41.70%, and 37.17%, respectively.

Keywords: Container number recognition; ACCR-YOLOv7; ESPP module; SimAM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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