MFANet: Mixed Feature Attention Network for Port Lane Detection

With the advancement of industrial automation and artificial intelligence technology, unmanned port autonomy has gained increasing attention. Port automatic driving technology is a critical component of unmanned autonomous systems, enabling rubber tire gantry cranes (RTGs) to autonomously navigate by detecting port lanes and implementing control commands. In this study, a deep learning-based method is proposed for detecting port lanes in complex port scenes. The method employs the Inception module and attention mechanism to enhance lane feature extraction, and a structural loss is introduced to explicitly constrain the detection results and incorporate the prior characteristics of port lanes. A novel Mixed Feature Attention Network (MFANet) is proposed to implement the method for port lane detection. Experimental results demonstrate that MFANet effectively improves the accuracy of port lane detection while maintaining high computational efficiency. Furthermore, the performance of MFANet is evaluated in a real-world application scenario.