Multiple pedestrian detection using IR LED stereo camera

Bo Ling; Michael I. Zeifman; David R.P. Gibson

doi:10.1117/12.734421

10 September 2007 Multiple pedestrian detection using IR LED stereo camera

Bo Ling, Michael I. Zeifman, David R.P. Gibson

Proceedings Volume 6764, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXV: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision; 67640A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734421
Event: Optics East, 2007, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

As part of the U.S. Department of Transportations Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) program, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is conducting R&D in vehicle safety and driver information systems. There is an increasing number of applications where pedestrian monitoring is of high importance. Visionbased pedestrian detection in outdoor scenes is still an open challenge. People dress in very different colors that sometimes blend with the background, wear hats or carry bags, and stand, walk and change directions unpredictably. The background is various, containing buildings, moving or parked cars, bicycles, street signs, signals, etc. Furthermore, existing pedestrian detection systems perform only during daytime, making it impossible to detect pedestrians at night. Under FHWA funding, we are developing a multi-pedestrian detection system using IR LED stereo camera. This system, without using any templates, detects the pedestrians through statistical pattern recognition utilizing 3D features extracted from the disparity map. A new IR LED stereo camera is being developed, which can help detect pedestrians during daytime and night time. Using the image differencing and denoising, we have also developed new methods to estimate the disparity map of pedestrians in near real time. Our system will have a hardware interface with the traffic controller through wireless communication. Once pedestrians are detected, traffic signals at the street intersections will change phases to alert the drivers of approaching vehicles. The initial test results using images collected at a street intersection show that our system can detect pedestrians in near real time.

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Bo Ling, Michael I. Zeifman, and David R.P. Gibson "Multiple pedestrian detection using IR LED stereo camera", Proc. SPIE 6764, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXV: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, 67640A (10 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734421

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