Title
A single-shot model for traffic-related pedestrian detection
Abstract
Traffic-related pedestrian detection is important for advanced driving-assistant systems and autonomous driving. In addition to pedestrian detection, traffic-related pedestrian detection involves the challenge of detecting small-target pedestrians from large input images. Recently, deep-learning-based methods, including convolution neural networks, have been applied to problems of pedestrian detection. In this study, we propose a single-shot multibox detector (SSD)-based method called E-SSD to increase the accuracy and speed of detecting traffic-related pedestrians. This method includes a deconvolutional feature-fusion module to provide shallow layers with additional contextual information, which is beneficial for detecting small-sized objects. Additionally, we included an attention layer designed to exploit channel attention and spatial attention in order to utilize the most valuable information for detecting target pedestrians. Furthermore, we built a traffic-related pedestrian dataset (UCAR pedestrian) specific for Beijing. Evaluation results on the UCAR dataset demonstrated that E-SSD was more effective than a baseline SSD model at detecting small-target pedestrians. Evaluation of E-SSD on the Caltech pedestrian, COCO Persons and INRIA pedestrian datasets demonstrated that its performance was comparable with state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s10044-022-01076-1
Pattern Analysis and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep learning, Neural network, Object detection, Attention mechanism, Feature fusion
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1433-7541
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chang Sun100.34
Yibo Ai294.29
Xing Qi300.34
Wang Sheng485.80
Weidong Zhang573.64