Railway Intrusion Risk Quantification with Track Semantic Segmentation and Spatiotemporal Features

Foreign object intrusion in railway perimeter areas poses significant risks to train operation safety. To address the limitation of current visual detection technologies that overly focus on target identification while lacking quantitative risk assessment, this paper proposes a railway intrusion risk quantification method integrating track semantic segmentation and spatiotemporal features. An improved BiSeNetV2 network is employed to accurately extract track regions, while physical-constrained risk zones are constructed based on railway structure gauge standards. The lateral spatial distance of intruding objects is precisely calculated using track gauge prior knowledge. A lightweight detection architecture is designed, adopting ShuffleNetV2 as the backbone to reduce computational complexity, with an incorporated Dilated Transformer module to enhance global context awareness and sparse feature extraction, significantly improving detection accuracy for small-scale objects. The comprehensive risk assessment formula integrates object category weights, lateral risk coefficients in intrusion zones, longitudinal distance decay factors, and dynamic velocity compensation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves 84.9% mean average precision (mAP) on our proprietary dataset, outperforming baseline models by 3.3%. By combining lateral distance detection with multidimensional risk indicators, the method enables quantitative intrusion risk assessment and graded early warning, providing data-driven decision support for active train protection systems and substantially enhancing intelligent safety protection capabilities.