Title
CircleNet: Reciprocating Feature Adaptation for Robust Pedestrian Detection
Abstract
Pedestrian detection in the wild remains a challenging problem especially when the scene contains significant occlusion and/or low resolution of the pedestrians to be detected. Existing methods are unable to adapt to these difficult cases while maintaining acceptable performance. In this paper we propose a novel feature learning model, referred to as CircleNet, to achieve feature adaptation by mimicking the process humans looking at low resolution and occluded objects: focusing on it again, at a finer scale, if the object can not be identified clearly for the first time. CircleNet is implemented as a set of feature pyramids and uses weight sharing path augmentation for better feature fusion. It targets at reciprocating feature adaptation and iterative object detection using multiple top-down and bottom-up pathways. To take full advantage of the feature adaptation capability in CircleNet, we design an instance decomposition training strategy to focus on detecting pedestrian instances of various resolutions and different occlusion levels in each cycle. Specifically, CircleNet implements feature ensemble with the idea of hard negative boosting in an end-to-end manner. Experiments on two pedestrian detection datasets, Caltech and CityPersons, show that CircleNet improves the performance of occluded and low-resolution pedestrians with significant margins while maintaining good performance on normal instances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TITS.2019.2942045
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CircleNet,feature learning,pedestrian detection,traffic scenes
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1524-9050
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianliang Zhang142.41
Zhenjun Han217616.40
Huijuan Xu323912.33
Baochang Zhang4113093.76
Qixiang Ye591364.51