Real-time pedestrian and vehicle detection in video using 3D cues

Existing pedestrian and vehicle detection algorithms use 2D cues of objects, such as pixel values, color, texture, shape information or motion. The use of 3D cues in object detection, on the other hand, is not well studied in the literature. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm that dete...

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Main Authors: Ping-Han Lee, Tzu-Hsuan Chiu, Yen-Liang Lin, Yi-Ping Hung
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cameras
Computer vision
Condition monitoring
Layout
Object detection
pedestrian detection
realtime object detection
Shape
Support vector machines
Surveillance
Vehicle detection
Vehicles
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Summary:Existing pedestrian and vehicle detection algorithms use 2D cues of objects, such as pixel values, color, texture, shape information or motion. The use of 3D cues in object detection, on the other hand, is not well studied in the literature. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm that detects pedestrian and vehicle using their 3D cues. The proposed algorithm first detects moving objects in a video frame using a background modeling technique. For each moving object, we extract its width and height in 3D space, with the aid of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the camera monitoring the scene. To estimate the camera parameters, we apply a calibration-free method, which simply requires users to specify six vertices on a cuboid in the scene. Then based on its 3D cues, a object is verified whether it is a pedestrian(vehicle) or not by the class-specific Support Vector Machine (SVM). In our experiment, the proposed algorithm achieves a precision of 88.2% (89.1%) for pedestrian(vehicle) detection, at 32 frame-per-second on average upon five testing sequences.
ISSN:1945-7871
1945-788X
DOI:10.1109/ICME.2009.5202571