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However, vehicle detection in night scenes still has considerable challenges for the reason that the vehicle features are not obvious and are easily affected by complex road lighting or lights from vehicles. In this paper, a high-accuracy vehicle detection algorithm is proposed to detect vehicles in night scenes. Firstly, an improved Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), named Attentive GAN, is used to enhance the vehicle features of nighttime images. Then, with the purpose of achieving a higher detection accuracy, a multiple local regression is employed in the regression branch, which predicts multiple bounding box offsets. An improved Region of Interest (RoI) pooling method is used to get distinguishing features in a classification branch based on Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN). Cross entropy loss is introduced to improve the accuracy of classification branch. The proposed method is examined with the proposed dataset, which is composed of the selected nighttime images from BDD-100k dataset (Berkeley Diverse Driving Database, including 100,000 images). Compared with a series of state-of-the-art detectors, the experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can effectively contribute to vehicle detection accuracy in nighttime.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23111490","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,11]],"date-time":"2021-11-11T23:02:41Z","timestamp":1636671761000},"page":"1490","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A Nighttime Vehicle Detection Method with Attentive GAN for Accurate Classification and Regression"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yan","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450066, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tiantian","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450066, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450066, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenting","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450066, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Deva, P.W., Srihari, T., and Kalimuthu, Y. 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