Occluded pedestrian detection combined with semantic features. Issue 10 (31st March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ruan, Binjie; Zhang, Chongyang
• Is Part Of: IET image processing. Volume 15:Issue 10(2021)
• Page Start: 2292
• Page End: 2300
• Publication Date: 2021-03-31
• Subjects: Image processing -- Periodicals; 621.36705
• DOI: 10.1049/ipr2.12196
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-9659

Abstract

Abstract: The task of pedestrian detection is to identify the location and size of pedestrians in images or videos. However, occlusions are very common in real‐life scenarios, which make pedestrian detection more difficult. In order to solve the occlusion problem in pedestrian detection, a semantic feature enhancement module to acquire more informative and richer semantic features is proposed. The detector enhances semantic features by fusing feature maps of different layers, and detects pedestrians based on their locations and scales. The Experiments performed on Caltech and CityPersons datasets show that the algorithm achieves superior performance for detecting occluded pedestrians, especially heavily occluded ones. 30.6% and 47.9% log‐average missing rates are achieved in the heavily occluded subsets of Caltech and Cityperons, respectively. Moreover, this method is robust to the detection of heavily occluded pedestrians, and the module can be easily used by other detection frameworks.