Detecting pedestrians at very small scales

  • Authors:
  • Luciano Spinello;Albert Macho;Rudolph Triebel;Roland Siegwart

  • Affiliations:
  • Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel image based detection method for pedestrians at very small scales (between 16 x 20 and 32 × 40). We propose a set of new distinctive image features based on collections of local image gradients grouped by a superpixel segmentation. Features are collected and classified using AdaBoost. The positive classified features then vote for potential hypotheses that are collected using a mean shift mode estimation approach. The presented method overcomes the common limitations of a sliding window approach as well as those of standard voting approaches based on interest points. Extensive tests have been produced on a dataset with more than 20000 images showing the potential of this approach.