Title
Efficient Pedestrian Detection at Nighttime Using a Thermal Camera.
Abstract
Most of the commercial nighttime pedestrian detection (PD) methods reported previously utilized the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) or the local binary pattern (LBP) as the feature and the support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier using thermal camera images. In this paper, we propose a new feature called the thermal-position-intensity-histogram of oriented gradient (TPIHOG or T pi HOG) and developed a new combination of the T pi HOG and the additive kernel SVM (AKSVM) for efficient nighttime pedestrian detection. The proposed T pi HOG includes detailed information on gradient location; therefore, it has more distinctive power than the HOG. The AKSVM performs better than the linear SVM in terms of detection performance, while it is much faster than other kernel SVMs. The combined T pi HOG-AKSVM showed effective nighttime PD performance with fast computational time. The proposed method was experimentally tested with the KAIST pedestrian dataset and showed better performance compared with other conventional methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17081850
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
pedestrian detection,far-infrared sensor,thermal-position-intensity-histogram of oriented gradient
Kernel (linear algebra),Histogram,Computer vision,Thermal,Pattern recognition,Local binary patterns,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Classifier (linguistics),Pedestrian detection,Linear svm
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
8.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.55
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeonghyun Baek1265.31
Sungjun Hong2475.58
Jisu Kim321128.11
Euntai Kim41472109.36