Fast pedestrian detection from a moving vehicle

This paper presents a method of real-time multi-modal pedestrian detection from a moving vehicle. The system uses both intensity and thermal images captured from cameras mounted at the front of the vehicle to train cascades of classifiers, which results in a detector that is able to detect a large percentage of pedestrians with very few false positives. The system has also been tested with inputs of high-resolution intensity images along with low-resolution thermal images, showing that the addition of even a low-resolution thermal camera may return better pedestrian detection results than using only intensity information alone.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• You, Shuang

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Trevor Darrell.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37093

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/37093