Pedestrian detection
computer technology related to computer vision and image processing
Pedestrian detection is an essential and significant task in any intelligent video surveillance system, as it provides the fundamental information for semantic understanding of the video footages. It has an obvious extension
to automotive applications due to the potential for improving safety systems. Many car manufacturers (e.g. Volvo, Ford, GM, Nissan) offer this as an ADAS option in 2017.
Challenges
Various style of clothing in appearance
Different possible articulations
The presence of occluding accessories
Frequent occlusion between pedestrians
Existing approaches
Despite the challenges, pedestrian detection still remains an active research area in computer vision in recent years. Numerous approaches have been proposed.
Holistic detection
Detectors are trained to search for pedestrians in the video frame by scanning the whole frame. The detector would “fire” if the image features inside the local search window meet certain criteria. Some methods employ global features such as edge template, others uses local features like histogram of oriented gradients descriptors. The drawback of this approach is that the performance can be easily affected by background clutter and occlusions.
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