TED: A texture-edge descriptor for pedestrian detection in video sequences

  • Authors:
  • Narges Armanfard;Majid Komeili;Ehsanollah Kabir

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical and computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran;Faculty of Electrical and computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran;Faculty of Electrical and computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel descriptor, TED, for pedestrian detection in video sequences. TED describes texture and edge information simultaneously. TED is a local descriptor because it is defined over a neighborhood. The size of the TED, independent of the neighborhood size defined over it, is 8 bits. TED is based on intensity difference, and so it is robust against illumination changes. We demonstrate TED performance in a block-based framework for pedestrian detection. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor when applied in different outdoor and indoor environments.