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However, the inaccurate extraction of vehicle logo candidate regions will affect the accuracy of logo recognition. Additionally, the existing methods have low recognition rate for most small vehicle logos and poor performance under complicated environments. A VLR method based on enhanced matching, constrained region extraction and SSFPD network is proposed in this paper to solve the aforementioned problems. A constrained region extraction method based on segmentation of the car head and car tail is proposed to accurately extract the candidate region of logo. An enhanced matching method is proposed to improve the detection performance of small objects, which augment each of training images by copy-pasting small objects many times in the unconstrained region. A single deep neural network based on a reduced ResNeXt model and Feature Pyramid Networks is proposed in this paper, which is named as Single Shot Feature Pyramid Detector (SSFPD). The SSFPD uses the reduced ResNeXt to improve classification performance of the network and retain more detailed information for small-sized vehicle logo detection. Additionally, it uses the Feature Pyramid Networks module to bring in more semantic context information to build several high-level semantic feature maps, which effectively improves recognition performance. Extensive evaluations have been made on self-collected and public vehicle logo datasets. The proposed method achieved 93.79% accuracy on the Common Vehicle Logos Dataset and 99.52% accuracy on another public dataset, respectively, outperforming the existing methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19204528","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,18]],"date-time":"2019-10-18T04:12:59Z","timestamp":1571371979000},"page":"4528","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Vehicle Logo Recognition Based on Enhanced Matching for Small Objects, Constrained Region and SSFPD Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Ruikang","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qing","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2526-2181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weidong","family":"Min","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China"},{"name":"Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Smart City, Nanchang 330047, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Linghua","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianqiang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1979","DOI":"10.1016\/j.patcog.2014.12.018","article-title":"Vehicle make and model recognition using sparse representation and symmetrical SURFs","volume":"48","author":"Chen","year":"2015","journal-title":"Pattern Recognit."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1145\/3107614","article-title":"Automated vehicle detection and classification","volume":"50","author":"Boukerche","year":"2017","journal-title":"ACM Comput. 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