Title
Pyramid binary pattern features for real-time pedestrian detection from infrared videos
Abstract
This paper presents a robust real-time pedestrian detection approach from infrared (IR) videos using binary pattern features. A novel pyramid binary pattern (PBP) feature is first proposed for IR pedestrian appearance representation. Both symmetry and spatial layout of texture cells have been encapsulated in the PBP feature. PBP outperforms several state-of-the-art binary pattern features for IR pedestrian images classification. Motivated by the recent success of motion-enhanced pedestrian detector, we then extend the PBP feature to 3D spatial-temporal volumes. The dynamic PBP feature combines both motion and appearance for IR pedestrian description and achieves better performance in comparison to the static PBP feature. Finally, a keypoint based sliding window support vector machine (SVM) classifier is used to detect pedestrians in IR videos. The keypoint based scanning strategy reduces the number of candidate sub-windows dramatically. The proposed approach has been implemented on an experimental vehicle equipped with a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera. Experimental results in various urban scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our approach. In addition, even though our approach is presented for IR imageries, it can also be applied to pedestrian detection in visual images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.neucom.2010.10.009
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
ir pedestrian description,dynamic pbp feature,infrared video,ir video,pedestrian detection,ir pedestrian images classification,keypoint based classifier,robust real-time pedestrian detection,pyramid binary pattern,motion-enhanced pedestrian detector,pbp feature,pyramid binary pattern feature,ir imagery,ir pedestrian appearance representation,suicide prevention,infrared,occupational safety,sliding window,ergonomics,vision,support vector machine,classification,image classification,tracking,real time,injury prevention,human factors
Computer vision,Binary pattern,Sliding window protocol,Pattern recognition,Support vector machine,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Pyramid,Classifier (linguistics),Pedestrian detection,Detector,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
74
5
Neurocomputing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.82
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hao Sun1567.07
Cheng Wang2141.16
Boliang Wang3264.61
Naser El-Sheimy447757.36