Ensuring Port Safety: Improved YOLOX and DeepSORT for Accurate Detection and Tracking of Trucks and Truck Drivers

An optimized YOLOX+DeepSORT method is proposed to accurately detect and track container trucks and truck drivers at the working position of automated rubber tire gantries in ports, while ensuring their safety during the whole working process. In the proposed method, the improved YOLOX performs object detection and its output is used as the input for multi -object tracking using DeepSORT. The improved YOLOX model is developed through replacing standard convolution with depthwise separable convolution, adding the convolutional block attention module to enhance feature extraction, and using Focal Loss in the loss function to address sample imbalances. Comparative experiments were carried out on a self-built dataset, showing a 4.32% increase in mAP and improved reasoning speed for improved YOLOX compared to the original YOLOX. Furthermore, the optimized method shows a 3.57% increase in Multi-Object Tracking Accuracy and a 1.73% increase in Multi-Object Tracking Precision compared to the benchmark YOLOX+DeepSORT.