Deep Learning based automobile identification application

Abstract

Today, the high competition among domestic automobile manufacturers is intense situation than previous years. This result gives advantages in a good variety of brands, models, engine sizes and appearances. This can cause some critical issues in recognizing and recalling a car by manufacturer. In addition, an owner may modify some parts of original vehicle such as the head bumper, the rear bumper, and the headlight. This modification also affects the people who are looking for pre-owned cars. Despite the fact, the details are mismatched with the vehicle registration book that issued by the Department of Land Transport. From this incident, the researchers implemented a convolutional neural network (CNN) in the identification of vehicle characteristics to reduce the ambiguity for each car’s models. The researchers conducted experiments using five algorithms. SVM, ResNet34, ResNet50 and Inception-ResNetV2. The researchers set up a library of two car models, Toyota Hilux and Honda Civic sedan and Civic Hatchback, including models from past ten years ago until the present. The images are of 224x224 pixels. The data are categorized into two sets, a training set has 1,449 images which is counted as 80% of total images and a testing set is having 362 images which is about 20% of total. The total images are 1,811 and 26 Classes. Our experiments compared the accuracies of SVM, Res-Net34, ResNet50, and Inception-ResNetV2, which came out to be 21.4%, 55.5%, 66.6%, and 92.8% respectively. As a result, Inception-ResNetV2 outperforms among all other methods.