A time-saving automobile assembly state monitoring system based on channel-pruned YOLOv4 algorithm

A time-saving automobile assembly state monitoring system in industrial environment is presented in this paper. The system only needs to input a video which contains the whole detected parts and manually label in the first frame. By finding the best point for tracking and tracking the point, the dataset can be automatically generated which saves time spent on manufacturing the dataset and makes the assembly state monitoring system easy to deploy into a practical industrial environment. The target detection algorithm uses the channel-pruned YOLOv4 neural network. The experimental result shows the algorithm balances speed and accuracy. Compared to original YOLOv4, our proposed method is two times faster and the mAP is nearly equal to it. It shows that the channel pruning process dynamically improves the speed of the forward propagation without sacrifice accuracy.