Fast pedestrian detection using color information

  • Authors:
  • Y. W. Xu;X. B. Cao;H. Qiao;F. Y. Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China;Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ISI'06 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In a pedestrian detection system, the application of color information can increase the detection rate; however, the detection speed will be slowed down a lot. This paper presents a fast pedestrian detection method using color information. It firstly scans a pair of sequential gray-scale frames to select candidates using both appearance and motion features; and then uses information of each color channel (RGB) to do a further confirmation with support vector machine based classifiers. Compared with pedestrian detection systems that only use gray-scale information, the system using our method has almost the same detection speed; at the same time, it also gets a better detection rate and false-positive rate. The experiment in a pedestrian detection system with a single optical camera proves the effectiveness of our method.