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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 1309-1318.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000096

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  • 收稿日期:2022-02-16 出版日期:2023-10-18 发布日期:2023-10-30

Scene image recognition with knowledge transfer for drone navigation

Hao DU1,2(), Wei WANG2,3(), Xuerao WANG1(), Jingqiu ZUO2(), Yuanda WANG1,*()   

  1. 1 School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
    2 Autonomous Control Robot Laboratory, Jiangsu Zhongke Institute of Applied Research on Intelligent Science and Technology, Changzhou 213164, China
    3 Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2022-02-16 Online:2023-10-18 Published:2023-10-30
  • Contact: Yuanda WANG E-mail:du-hao@seu.edu.cn;wwcb@nuist.edu.cn;wangxuerao@seu.edu.cn;zuojingqiu@arist.ac.cn;wangyd@seu.edu.cn
  • About author:
    DU Hao was born in 1987. He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in electronic information engineering and system analysis and integration from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include multi-sensor fusion navigation for the drone, computer vision and visual simultaneous localization and mapping. E-mail: du-hao@seu.edu.cn

    WANG Wei was born in 1972. He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively. He is currently a professor at the School of Automation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include nonlinear system control, intelligent control of the drone. E-mail: wwcb@nuist.edu.cn

    WANG Xuerao was born in 1996. She received her B.S. degree in engineering from Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China, in 2016, and M.S. degree in engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2019. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering with the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Her research interests include intelligent control, nonlinear system control, and reinforcement learning. E-mail: wangxuerao@seu.edu.cn

    ZUO Jingqiu was born in 1995. She received her B.S. degree in engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2017, and M.S. degree in engineering from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 2020. She is currently an engineer in the Jiangsu Zhongke Institute of Applied Research on Intelligent Science & Technology, China. Her research interests include mobile robot and autonomous navigation. E-mail: zuojingqiu@arist.ac.cn

    WANG Yuanda was born in 1993. He received his B.S. degree in automation from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 2014, and Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2020. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher with the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA from 2016 to 2018. His current research interests include deep reinforcement learning, neural networks, and multi-agent systems. E-mail: wangyd@seu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 62103104), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20210215), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M690615)

Abstract:

In this paper, we study scene image recognition with knowledge transfer for drone navigation. We divide navigation scenes into three macro-classes, namely outdoor special scenes (OSSs), the space from indoors to outdoors or from outdoors to indoors transitional scenes (TSs), and others. However, there are difficulties in how to recognize the TSs, to this end, we employ deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based on knowledge transfer, techniques for image augmentation, and fine tuning to solve the issue. Moreover, there is still a novelty detection problem in the classifier, and we use global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to solve it in the prediction stage. Experiment results show our method, with a pre-trained model and fine tuning, can achieve 91.3196% top-1 accuracy on Scenes21 dataset, paving the way for drones to learn to understand the scenes around them autonomously.

Key words: scene recognition, convolutional neural network, knowledge transfer, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)-aided