A Study on Tiny YOLO for Resource Constrained Xray Threat Detection

This paper implements and analyses multiple nets to determine their suitability for edge devices to solve the problem of detecting Threat Objects from X-ray security imaging data. There has been ongoing research on applying Deep Learning techniques to solve this problem automatedly. We utilize an alternative activation function calculated to have zero expected conversion error with the activation of a spiking activation function, in the our tiny YOLOv7 model. This QCFS version of the tiny YOLO replicates the activation of ultra-low latency and high-efficiency SNN architecture and achieves state-of-the-art performance on CLCXray which is another open-source XRay Threat Detection dataset, hence making improvements in the field of using spiking for object detection. We also analyze the performance of a Spiking YOLO network by converting our QCFS network into a Spiking Network.