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In recent years, the proliferation of vehicles on roadways, accompanied by an escalating demand for augmented safety and refined traffic management, has fueled substantial progress in the domains of computer vision and deep learning methodologies. This technological surge has precipitated ground-breaking applications, with real-time vehicle detection emerging as a linchpin. Capability to accurately detect vehicles in a real-time holds profound implications across diverse domains. In the context of autonomous driving, it underpins essential functions such as path planning, collision avoidance, and decision-making, essential for the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. In the arena of traffic monitoring, it empowers transportation authorities to acquire real-time insights into traffic dynamics, congestion patterns, and incident detection, thereby optimizing traffic flow and resource allocation strategies. Furthermore, within surveillance systems, real-time vehicle detection equips security personnel with the means to swiftly identify potential security threats, enhancing overall situational awareness and safety. This paper contributes to this dynamic landscape by introducing an innovative architecture expressly crafted for vehicle detection. Leveraging state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and deep learning methodologies, this architecture addresses the evolving challenges posed by contemporary traffic scenarios. Through the enhancement of real-time vehicle detection capabilities, our aim is to fortify the foundations of safety, efficiency, and security within vehicular contexts. The paper includes a fusion of AlexNet and Darknet accompanied by a comparative analysis. It is expected to deliver unmatched dependability and accuracy in real-time traffic monitoring, setting a new standard for performance in this application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting is a key skill of biological brains, whereas it represents a major challenge to the field of deep learning. To avoid catastrophic forgetting, various continual learning (CL) approaches have been devised. However, these usually require discrete task boundaries. This requirement seems biologically implausible and often limits the application of CL methods in the real world where tasks are not always well defined. Here, we take inspiration from neuroscience, where sparse, non-overlapping neuronal representations have been suggested to prevent catastrophic forgetting. As in the brain, we argue that these sparse representations should be chosen on the basis of feed forward (stimulus-specific) as well as top-down (context-specific) information. To implement such selective sparsity, we use a bio-plausible form of hierarchical credit assignment known as Deep Feedback Control (DFC) and combine it with a winner-take-all sparsity mechanism. In addition to sparsity, we introduce lateral recurrent connections within each layer to further protect previously learned representations. We evaluate the new sparse-recurrent version of DFC on the split-MNIST computer vision benchmark and show that only the combination of sparsity and intra-layer recurrent connections improves CL performance with respect to standard backpropagation. Our method achieves similar performance to well-known CL methods, such as Elastic Weight Consolidation and Synaptic Intelligence, without requiring information about task boundaries. Overall, we showcase the idea of adopting computational principles from the brain to derive new, task-free learning algorithms for CL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]