Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Object Detection for Electric Scooters
<|reference_start|>Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Object Detection for Electric Scooters: Electric scooters (e-scooters) have rapidly emerged as a popular mode of transportation in urban areas, yet they pose significant safety challenges. In the United States, the rise of e-scooters has been marked by a concerning increase in related injuries and fatalities. Recently, while deep-learning object detection holds paramount significance in autonomous vehicles to avoid potential collisions, its application in the context of e-scooters remains relatively unexplored. This paper addresses this gap by assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of cutting-edge object detectors designed for e-scooters. To achieve this, the first comprehensive benchmark involving 22 state-of-the-art YOLO object detectors, including five versions (YOLOv3, YOLOv5, YOLOv6, YOLOv7, and YOLOv8), has been established for real-time traffic object detection using a self-collected dataset featuring e-scooters. The detection accuracy, measured in terms of mAP@0.5, ranges from 27.4% (YOLOv7-E6E) to 86.8% (YOLOv5s). All YOLO models, particularly YOLOv3-tiny, have displayed promising potential for real-time object detection in the context of e-scooters. Both the traffic scene dataset (https://zenodo.org/records/10578641) and software program codes (https://github.com/DongChen06/ScooterDet) for model benchmarking in this study are publicly available, which will not only improve e-scooter safety with advanced object detection but also lay the groundwork for tailored solutions, promising a safer and more sustainable urban micromobility landscape.<|reference_end|>
@article{chen2024performance,
    title={Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Object Detection for Electric
  Scooters},
    author={Dong Chen, Arman Hosseini, Arik Smith, Amir Farzin Nikkhah, Arsalan
  Heydarian, Omid Shoghli, Bradford Campbell},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03039},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.03039},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.SY eess.SY}
}