International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics
Vol 12, No 2 (2026): May 2026

Enhancing anomaly lane detection accuracy using feature cross attention in U-Net architecture

Zahir Zainuddin (Hasanuddin University)
Muhammad Abdillah Rahmat (Hasanuddin University)
Elly Warni (Hasanuddin University)
A. Ais Prayogi Alimuddin (Hasanuddin University)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2026

Abstract

Lane departure detection is a crucial task in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving, aimed at reducing accidents caused by unintentional road deviation. This study proposes a modified U-Net architecture enhanced with Feature Cross Attention (FCA) to improve lane departure anomaly detection. The objective is to enhance spatial sensitivity and context awareness in segmentation, especially under challenging driving conditions such as occlusions, poor lighting, and distorted lane geometry. The materials used include the publicly available Comma2k19 LD dataset, comprising 2,000 manually annotated frames extracted from highway driving scenarios. Each frame includes synchronized video and driving telemetry, offering diverse visual conditions. Preprocessing steps include resizing, normalization, and annotation conversion to binary masks. An anomaly is defined based on a spatial deviation threshold between predicted and ground truth lane boundaries. The proposed method incorporates FCA at th e bottleneck and decoder levels of the U-Net architecture. Evaluation was performed using Intersection over Union (IoU), Pixel Accuracy, and threshold based anomaly criteria. The model achieved 99.19% Pixel Accuracy and 98.47% IoU, outperforming the baseline U-Net (97.56% and 97.46%, respectively). Visual results showed improved detection of subtle lane shifts. A confusion matrix generated over 210 validation images demonstrated perfect classification of normal and anomalous cases. These results confirm that FCA integration enhances segmentation precision and anomaly sensitivity. The approach is suitable for real time deployment in autonomous systems. Future research may focus on temporal integration, lightweight optimization for embedded devices, and extending the framework to multi lane or urban traffic environments.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAIN

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

International journal of advances in intelligent informatics (IJAIN) e-ISSN: 2442-6571 is a peer reviewed open-access journal published three times a year in English-language, provides scientists and engineers throughout the world for the exchange and dissemination of theoretical and ...