Pedestrian Detection at Night in Infrared Images Using an Attention-Guided Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network
- Title
- Pedestrian Detection at Night in Infrared Images Using an Attention-Guided Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network
- Author
- 신현철
- Keywords
- infrared pedestrian detection; encoder-decoder; attention; convolutional neural network
- Issue Date
- 2020-01
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Citation
- APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, v. 10, Issue. 3, Article no. 809, 18pp
- Abstract
- Pedestrian-related accidents are much more likely to occur during nighttime when visible (VI) cameras are much less effective. Unlike VI cameras, infrared (IR) cameras can work in total darkness. However, IR images have several drawbacks, such as low-resolution, noise, and thermal energy characteristics that can differ depending on the weather. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose an IR camera system to identify pedestrians at night that uses a novel attention-guided encoder-decoder convolutional neural network (AED-CNN). In AED-CNN, encoder-decoder modules are introduced to generate multi-scale features, in which new skip connection blocks are incorporated into the decoder to combine the feature maps from the encoder and decoder module. This new architecture increases context information which is helpful for extracting discriminative features from low-resolution and noisy IR images. Furthermore, we propose an attention module to re-weight the multi-scale features generated by the encoder-decoder module. The attention mechanism effectively highlights pedestrians while eliminating background interference, which helps to detect pedestrians under various weather conditions. Empirical experiments on two challenging datasets fully demonstrate that our method shows superior performance. Our approach significantly improves the precision of the state-of-the-art method by 5.1% and 23.78% on the Keimyung University (KMU) and Computer Vision Center (CVC)-09 pedestrian dataset, respectively.
- URI
- https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/3/809https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/163247
- ISSN
- 2076-3417
- DOI
- 10.3390/app10030809
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES[E](공학대학) > ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING(전자공학부) > Articles
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