A corpus for benchmarking of people detection algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Álvaro García-Martín;José M. Martínez;Jesús Bescós

  • Affiliations:
  • Video Processing and Understanding Lab, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain;Video Processing and Understanding Lab, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain;Video Processing and Understanding Lab, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper describes a corpus, dataset and associated ground-truth, for the evaluation of people detection algorithms in surveillance video scenarios, along with the design procedure followed to generate it. Sequences from scenes with different levels of complexity have been manually annotated. Each person present at a scene has been labeled frame by frame, in order to automatically obtain a people detection ground-truth for each sequence. Sequences have been classified into different complexity categories depending on critical factors that typically affect the behavior of detection algorithms. The resulting corpus, which exceeds other public pedestrian datasets in the amount of video sequences and its complexity variability, is freely available for benchmarking and research purposes under a license agreement.