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Although the VLD field has been studied for many years, the detection task is still difficult due to the small size of the vehicle logo and the background interference problem. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a method of VLD based on the YOLO-T model and the correlation of the vehicle space structure. Aiming at the small size of the vehicle logo, we propose a vehicle logo detection network called YOLO-T. It integrates multiple receptive fields and establishes a multi-scale detection structure suitable for VLD tasks. In addition, we design an effective pre-training strategy to improve the detection accuracy of YOLO-T. Aiming at the background interference, we use the position correlation between the vehicle lights and the vehicle logo to extract the region of interest of the vehicle logo. This measure not only reduces the search area but also weakens the background interference. We have labeled a new vehicle logo dataset named LOGO-17, which contains 17 different categories of vehicle logos. The experimental results show that our proposed method achieves high detection accuracy and outperforms the existing vehicle logo detection methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23094313","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,27]],"date-time":"2023-04-27T04:30:47Z","timestamp":1682569847000},"page":"4313","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Vehicle Logo Recognition Using Spatial Structure Correlation and YOLO-T"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Li","family":"Song","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2526-2181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weidong","family":"Min","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"},{"name":"Institute of Metaverse, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"},{"name":"Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Smart City, Nanchang 330031, China"}]},{"given":"Linghua","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"},{"name":"Institute of Metaverse, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"},{"name":"Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Smart City, Nanchang 330031, China"}]},{"given":"Haoyu","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1840","DOI":"10.1109\/TITS.2020.3025687","article-title":"An Edge Traffic Flow Detection Scheme Based on Deep Learning in an Intelligent Transportation System","volume":"22","author":"Chen","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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