Vulnerable Road User Skeletal Pose Estimation Using mmWave Radars

Autor: Zhiyuan Zeng, Xingdong Liang, Yanlei Li, Xiangwei Dang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
Předmět:
Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 16, Iss 4, p 633 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs16040633
Popis: A skeletal pose estimation method, named RVRU-Pose, is proposed to estimate the skeletal pose of vulnerable road users based on distributed non-coherent mmWave radar. In view of the limitation that existing methods for skeletal pose estimation are only applicable to small scenes, this paper proposes a strategy that combines radar intensity heatmaps and coordinate heatmaps as input to a deep learning network. In addition, we design a multi-resolution data augmentation and training method suitable for radar to achieve target pose estimation for remote and multi-target application scenarios. Experimental results show that RVRU-Pose can achieve better than 2 cm average localization accuracy for different subjects in different scenarios, which is superior in terms of accuracy and time compared to existing state-of-the-art methods for human skeletal pose estimation with radar. As an essential performance parameter of radar, the impact of angular resolution on the estimation accuracy of a skeletal pose is quantitatively analyzed and evaluated in this paper. Finally, RVRU-Pose has also been extended to the task of estimating the skeletal pose of a cyclist, reflecting the strong scalability of the proposed method.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje