A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Multiple Pedestrian Crossing Detection

When providing route guidance to pedestrians, one of the major safety considerations is to ensure that streets are crossed at places with pedestrian crossings. As a result, map service providers are keen to gather the location information about pedestrian crossings in the road network. Most, if not...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-07, Vol.20 (15), p.4144
Main Authors: Fan, Yuhua, Sun, Zhonggui, Zhao, Guoying
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Cameras
coarse-to-fine
detection
Localization
Medical research
Methods
pedestrian crossing
Pedestrian crossings
Pedestrians
probe vehicle video
Sensors
Straight lines
Vehicles
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Summary:When providing route guidance to pedestrians, one of the major safety considerations is to ensure that streets are crossed at places with pedestrian crossings. As a result, map service providers are keen to gather the location information about pedestrian crossings in the road network. Most, if not all, literature in this field focuses on detecting the pedestrian crossing immediately in front of the camera, while leaving the other pedestrian crossings in the same image undetected. This causes an under-utilization of the information in the video images, because not all pedestrian crossings captured by the camera are detected. In this research, we propose a coarse-to-fine framework to detect pedestrian crossings from probe vehicle videos, which can then be combined with the GPS traces of the corresponding vehicles to determine the exact locations of pedestrian crossings. At the coarse stage of our approach, we identify vanishing points and straight lines associated with the stripes of pedestrian crossings, and partition the edges to obtain rough candidate regions of interest (ROIs). At the fine stage, we determine whether these candidate ROIs are indeed pedestrian crossings by exploring their prior constraint information. Field experiments in Beijing and Shanghai cities show that the proposed approach can produce satisfactory results under a wide variety of situations.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s20154144