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This is achieved by transforming the existing well-established daytime vehicle dataset into a nighttime vehicle dataset. The proposed method adopts a comparative experimental approach to obtain translation models with different degrees of fitting by changing the training set capacity, and selects the optimal model based on the evaluation of the effect. The translated dataset is then used to train the YOLO-v5-based object detection model, and the quality of the nighttime dataset is evaluated through the evaluation of annotation confidence and effectiveness. The research results indicate that utilizing the translated nighttime vehicle dataset for training the object detection model can increase the area under the PR curve and the peak F1 score by 10.4% and 9% respectively. 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