Near infrared nighttime road pedestrians recognition based on convolutional neural network

Autor: Jianqiao Meng, Xiaobiao Dai, Shicai Liu, Caiqi Hu, Dapeng Chen, Chunlei Luo, Yuxia Duan, Junping Hu, Yunze He
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Infrared Physics & Technology. 97:25-32
ISSN: 1350-4495
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2018.11.028
Popis: Pedestrian recognition is the core technology of pedestrian detection in pedestrian protection systems. This paper compares and analyzes, visible and infrared images obtained via visible-spectrum, near-infrared, short-wave infrared, and long-wave infrared cameras. The results show that near-infrared camera was the best for nighttime pedestrian detection when device cost and pedestrian imaging quality were considered. This paper reports on the first time use of a self-learning softmax with a 9-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to identify near-infrared nighttime pedestrians. 267,000 samples obtained from the near-infrared images were employed to optimize the CNN recognition model. Collected near-infrared nighttime samples had 3 categories (background, pedestrian, and cyclist or motorcyclist) and will be made publicly available for researchers use. Testing results indicated that the optimized CNN model using self-learning softmax had a competitive accuracy and potential in real-time pedestrian recognition.
Databáze: OpenAIRE