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Box-level Segmentation Supervised Deep Neural Networks for Accurate and Real-time Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
Effective fusion of complementary information captured by multi-modal sensors
(visible and infrared cameras) enables robust pedestrian detection under
various surveillance situations (e.g. daytime and nighttime). In this paper, we
present a novel box-level segmentation supervised learning framework for
accurate and real-time multispectral pedestrian detection by incorporating
features extracted in visible and infrared channels. Specifically, our method
takes pairs of aligned visible and infrared images with easily obtained
bounding box annotations as input and estimates accurate prediction maps to
highlight the existence of pedestrians. It offers two major advantages over the
existing anchor box based multispectral detection methods. Firstly, it
overcomes the hyperparameter setting problem occurred during the training phase
of anchor box based detectors and can obtain more accurate detection results,
especially for small and occluded pedestrian instances. Secondly, it is capable
of generating accurate detection results using small-size input images, leading
to improvement of computational efficiency for real-time autonomous driving
applications. Experimental results on KAIST multispectral dataset show that our
proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both
accuracy and speed
Fusion of Multispectral Data Through Illumination-aware Deep Neural Networks for Pedestrian Detection
Multispectral pedestrian detection has received extensive attention in recent
years as a promising solution to facilitate robust human target detection for
around-the-clock applications (e.g. security surveillance and autonomous
driving). In this paper, we demonstrate illumination information encoded in
multispectral images can be utilized to significantly boost performance of
pedestrian detection. A novel illumination-aware weighting mechanism is present
to accurately depict illumination condition of a scene. Such illumination
information is incorporated into two-stream deep convolutional neural networks
to learn multispectral human-related features under different illumination
conditions (daytime and nighttime). Moreover, we utilized illumination
information together with multispectral data to generate more accurate semantic
segmentation which are used to boost pedestrian detection accuracy. Putting all
of the pieces together, we present a powerful framework for multispectral
pedestrian detection based on multi-task learning of illumination-aware
pedestrian detection and semantic segmentation. Our proposed method is trained
end-to-end using a well-designed multi-task loss function and outperforms
state-of-the-art approaches on KAIST multispectral pedestrian dataset
Thermo-visual feature fusion for object tracking using multiple spatiogram trackers
In this paper, we propose a framework that can efficiently combine features for robust tracking based on fusing the outputs of multiple spatiogram trackers. This is achieved without the exponential increase in storage and processing that other multimodal tracking approaches suffer from. The framework allows the features to be split arbitrarily between the trackers, as well as providing the flexibility to add, remove or dynamically weight features. We derive a mean-shift type algorithm for the framework that allows efficient object tracking with very low computational overhead. We especially target the fusion of thermal infrared and visible spectrum features as the most useful features for automated surveillance applications. Results are shown on multimodal video sequences clearly illustrating the benefits of combining multiple features using our framework
leave a trace - A People Tracking System Meets Anomaly Detection
Video surveillance always had a negative connotation, among others because of
the loss of privacy and because it may not automatically increase public
safety. If it was able to detect atypical (i.e. dangerous) situations in real
time, autonomously and anonymously, this could change. A prerequisite for this
is a reliable automatic detection of possibly dangerous situations from video
data. This is done classically by object extraction and tracking. From the
derived trajectories, we then want to determine dangerous situations by
detecting atypical trajectories. However, due to ethical considerations it is
better to develop such a system on data without people being threatened or even
harmed, plus with having them know that there is such a tracking system
installed. Another important point is that these situations do not occur very
often in real, public CCTV areas and may be captured properly even less. In the
artistic project leave a trace the tracked objects, people in an atrium of a
institutional building, become actor and thus part of the installation.
Visualisation in real-time allows interaction by these actors, which in turn
creates many atypical interaction situations on which we can develop our
situation detection. The data set has evolved over three years and hence, is
huge. In this article we describe the tracking system and several approaches
for the detection of atypical trajectories
Borrow from Anywhere: Pseudo Multi-modal Object Detection in Thermal Imagery
Can we improve detection in the thermal domain by borrowing features from
rich domains like visual RGB? In this paper, we propose a pseudo-multimodal
object detector trained on natural image domain data to help improve the
performance of object detection in thermal images. We assume access to a
large-scale dataset in the visual RGB domain and relatively smaller dataset (in
terms of instances) in the thermal domain, as is common today. We propose the
use of well-known image-to-image translation frameworks to generate pseudo-RGB
equivalents of a given thermal image and then use a multi-modal architecture
for object detection in the thermal image. We show that our framework
outperforms existing benchmarks without the explicit need for paired training
examples from the two domains. We also show that our framework has the ability
to learn with less data from thermal domain when using our approach. Our code
and pre-trained models are made available at
https://github.com/tdchaitanya/MMTODComment: Accepted at Perception Beyond Visible Spectrum Workshop, CVPR 201
Cognitive fusion of thermal and visible imagery for effective detection and tracking of pedestrians in videos
BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION In this paper, we present an efficient framework to cognitively detect and track salient objects from videos. In general, colored visible image in red-green-blue (RGB) has better distinguishability in human visual perception, yet it suffers from the effect of illumination noise and shadows. On the contrary, the thermal image is less sensitive to these noise effects though its distinguishability varies according to environmental settings. To this end, cognitive fusion of these two modalities provides an effective solution to tackle this problem. METHODS First, a background model is extracted followed by two stage background-subtraction for foreground detection in visible and thermal images. To deal with cases of occlusion or overlap, knowledge based forward tracking and backward tracking are employed to identify separate objects even the foreground detection fails. RESULTS To evaluate the proposed method, a publicly available color-thermal benchmark dataset OTCBVS is employed here. For our foreground detection evaluation, objective and subjective analysis against several state-of-the-art methods have been done on our manually segmented ground truth. For our object tracking evaluation, comprehensive qualitative experiments have also been done on all video sequences. CONCLUSIONS Promising results have shown that the proposed fusion based approach can successfully detect and track multiple human objects in most scenes regardless of any light change or occlusion problem
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