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INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2021.103694
Keywords
Distance estimation (DE); Faster R-CNN; Multi-task; Near-infrared (NIR); Nighttime; Pedestrian detection (PD)
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- National Natural Science Foundations of China [61505264, 51175518]
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The study introduces a novel multi-task pedestrian detection algorithm that can simultaneously perform distance estimation and pedestrian detection. Images were captured using a near-infrared camera and two near-infrared fill-light devices, with ground truth pedestrian distances obtained using LIDAR for training.
Distance estimation and pedestrian detection are critical for safe driving operation decision-making and autonomous vehicle intelligent control strategies. This paper proposes a novel multi-task Faster R-CNN detector which simultaneously realizes distance estimation and pedestrian detection using an improved ResNet-50 ar-chitecture. Images were acquired using a near-infrared camera with two near-infrared fill-lights devices during real road nighttime scenarios. Ground truth pedestrian distances used for training were obtained using LIDAR. The data used to optimize the multi-task Faster R-CNN detector were approximately 20 k high-quality near-infrared images with marked pedestrians and tagged distance values. The proposed algorithm including the distance estimation runs at a speed exceeding 7 fps. Pedestrian detection accuracy reached nearly 80% with a total average absolute distance estimation error rate of less than 5%.
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