FENet: Focusing Enhanced Network for Lane Detection
This addresses the safety-critical challenge of accurate lane detection for autonomous vehicles, though it appears to be an incremental improvement over existing methods.
The paper tackles the problem of precise lane detection for autonomous driving by introducing FENet, a network enhanced with human-inspired focusing mechanisms. Experiments show their Focusing Sampling strategy significantly boosts accuracy for curved and distant lanes, with FENetV2 proving most reliable for practical navigation despite slight degradation on standard metrics.
Inspired by human driving focus, this research pioneers networks augmented with Focusing Sampling, Partial Field of View Evaluation, Enhanced FPN architecture and Directional IoU Loss - targeted innovations addressing obstacles to precise lane detection for autonomous driving. Experiments demonstrate our Focusing Sampling strategy, emphasizing vital distant details unlike uniform approaches, significantly boosts both benchmark and practical curved/distant lane recognition accuracy essential for safety. While FENetV1 achieves state-of-the-art conventional metric performance via enhancements isolating perspective-aware contexts mimicking driver vision, FENetV2 proves most reliable on the proposed Partial Field analysis. Hence we specifically recommend V2 for practical lane navigation despite fractional degradation on standard entire-image measures. Future directions include collecting on-road data and integrating complementary dual frameworks to further breakthroughs guided by human perception principles. The Code is available at https://github.com/HanyangZhong/FENet.