Enhancing real time object detection for autonomous driving using YOLO-NAS algorithm with CLEO optimizer

For autonomous driving to operate in a safe and effective manner, efficient and precise object detection is essential. The efficacy of the network model is heavily challenged because of the high-speed movement of vehicles and the dynamic nature of the surrounding environment that need the detection of objects of various scales. With notable improvements over earlier iterations, the You Only Look Once-Neural Architecture Search (YOLO-NAS) algorithm is a strong contender for improving real-time object recognition in autonomous vehicles. YOLO-NAS integrated with chimpanzee leader election optimization (CLEO) has the potential to greatly enhance the safety and dependability of autonomous driving systems by utilizing its sophisticated capabilities and skill fully combining it with the vehicle’s perception system. The BDD100K dataset serves as the training and evaluation set for our suggested technique. The YOLO-NAS model with CLEO optimizer achieves mean average precision (mAP) of 83%, which is significantly higher than the mAP of 65.7% attained by the YOLO-NAS model without the optimizer. This improvement highlights the effectiveness of the CLEO optimizer in enhancing detection precision. The proposed approach was compared with existing algorithms and demonstrated remarkable performance in terms of recall, precision, and mAP. It is seen that our proposed model is better by striking equilibrium between detection speed and accuracy. Based on our findings, object detection performance for autonomous driving applications is much enhanced when utilizing our suggested approach.