Adaptation of Object Detection Models Using Transfer Learning for Navigation in Urban Environments
摘要
Most navigation algorithms are developed for controlled environments, such as warehouses and factories, or for autonomous vehicles, where the challenge lies in fast decision-making over a limited set of obstacles. These conditions differ significantly from pedestrian spaces, which are highly unstructured and low-speed in nature. This work focuses on the adaptation of object detection algorithms for pedestrian navigation via transfer learning. Several models were fine-tuned using the VIDVIP dataset. While all the trained models showed similar performance, YOLOv12x managed to achieve a mAP50-95 score higher than 0.6, which shows a visibly better performance on test environments. This work highlights the potential of transfer learning with urban datasets for enhancing pedestrian navigation systems.