Journal
INFORMATION FUSION
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 148-157Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2018.11.017
Keywords
Multispectral fusion; Pedestrian detection; Deep neural networks; Illumination-aware; Semantic segmentation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51605428, 51575486, U1664264]
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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 boost the performance of pedestrian detection significantly. A novel illumination-aware weighting mechanism is present to depict illumination condition of a scene accurately. 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 is used to supervise the training of pedestrian detector. Putting all of the pieces together, we present an effective 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.
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