A motion and shape-based pedestrian detection algorithm

Author

Elzein, Hadi ; Lakshmanan, Sridhar ; Watta, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

fYear

2003

Firstpage

500

Lastpage

504

Abstract

In this paper we investigate a vision-based pedestrian detection algorithm which can be used in the design of intelligent vehicle systems. The input to the algorithm is video data obtained from a camera mounted on the vehicle. In the proposed method, a wavelet transform is computed on the video frames, and multistage template matching is used to determine whether or not a pedestrian is present in the frame. Motion detection and localization is used to reduce the computational requirements. Experimental results are presented for several different video sequences. The results show that this method is able to reliably detect pedestrians in cluttered scenes.

Keywords

automated highways; computer vision; motion estimation; object detection; road traffic; video databases; wavelet transforms; cluttered scenes; intelligent vehicle systems; localization; motion detection; multistage template matching; video camera; video data; video sequences; vision based pedestrian detection; wavelet transform; Algorithm design and analysis; Cameras; Detection algorithms; Laboratories; Layout; Motion detection; Object detection; Shape; Vehicle detection; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7848-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2003.1212962

Filename

1212962