Citation

Negri P, Goussies N, Lotito P. Pattern Recognit. 2014; 47(1): 56-71.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.patcog.2013.05.020

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This work aims at detecting pedestrians in surveillance video sequences. A pre-processing step detects motion regions on the image using a scene background model based on level lines, which generates a Movement Feature Space, and a family of oriented histogram descriptors. A cascade of boosted classifiers generates pedestrian hypotheses using this feature space. Then, a linear Support Vector Machine validates the hypotheses that are likeliest to contain a person. The combination of the three detection phases reduces false positives, preserving the majority of pedestrians. The system tests conducted in our dataset, which contain low-resolution pedestrians, achieved a maximum performance of 25.5% miss rate with a rate of 10(-1) false positives per image. This value is comparable to the best detection values for this kind of images. In addition, the processing time is between 2 and 6 fps on 640 x 480 pixel captures. This is therefore a fast and reliable pedestrian detector. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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