Robust real-time pedestrian detection on embedded devices

Mohamed Afifi; Yara Ali; Karim Amer; Mahmoud Shaker; Mohamed Elhelw

doi:10.1117/12.2587097

4 January 2021 Robust real-time pedestrian detection on embedded devices

Mohamed Afifi, Yara Ali, Karim Amer, Mahmoud Shaker, Mohamed Elhelw

Proceedings Volume 11605, Thirteenth International Conference on Machine Vision; 1160529 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2587097
Event: Thirteenth International Conference on Machine Vision, 2020, Rome, Italy

Abstract

Detection of pedestrians on embedded devices, such as those on-board of robots and drones, has many applications including road intersection monitoring, security, crowd monitoring and surveillance, to name a few. However, the problem can be challenging due to continuously-changing camera viewpoint and varying object appearances as well as the need for lightweight algorithms suitable for embedded systems. This paper proposes a robust framework for pedestrian detection in many footages. The framework performs fine and coarse detections on different image regions and exploits temporal and spatial characteristics to attain enhanced accuracy and real time performance on embedded boards. The framework uses the Yolo-v3 object detection [1] as its backbone detector and runs on the Nvidia Jetson TX2 embedded board, however other detectors and/or boards can be used as well. The performance of the framework is demonstrated on two established datasets and its achievement of the second place in CVPR 2019 Embedded Real-Time Inference (ERTI) Challenge.

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Mohamed Afifi, Yara Ali, Karim Amer, Mahmoud Shaker, and Mohamed Elhelw "Robust real-time pedestrian detection on embedded devices", Proc. SPIE 11605, Thirteenth International Conference on Machine Vision, 1160529 (4 January 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2587097

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