Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network

In recent years, there has been increased interest in multispectral pedestrian detection using visible and infrared image pairs. This is due to the complementary visual information provided by these modalities, which enhances the robustness and reliability of pedestrian detection systems. However, c...

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Main Authors: Li Ma, Jinjin Wang, Xinguan Dai, Hangbiao Gao
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.1322232/full
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author Li Ma
Li Ma
Jinjin Wang
Jinjin Wang
Xinguan Dai
Xinguan Dai
Hangbiao Gao
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Li Ma
Jinjin Wang
Jinjin Wang
Xinguan Dai
Xinguan Dai
Hangbiao Gao
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description In recent years, there has been increased interest in multispectral pedestrian detection using visible and infrared image pairs. This is due to the complementary visual information provided by these modalities, which enhances the robustness and reliability of pedestrian detection systems. However, current research in multispectral pedestrian detection faces the challenge of effectively integrating different modalities to reduce miss rates in the system. This article presents an improved method for multispectral pedestrian detection. The method utilises a saliency detection technique to modify the infrared image and obtain an infrared-enhanced map with clear pedestrian features. Subsequently, a multiscale image features fusion network is designed to efficiently fuse visible and IR-enhanced maps. Finally, the fusion network is supervised by three loss functions for illumination perception, light intensity, and texture information in conjunction with the light perception sub-network. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the logarithmic mean miss rate for the three main subgroups (all day, day and night) to 3.12%, 3.06%, and 4.13% respectively, at “reasonable” settings. This is an improvement over the traditional method, which achieved rates of 3.11%, 2.77%, and 2.56% respectively, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spelling doaj.art-293c7f0969014e36ae8e3a4c8b75b1c72024-01-19T17:56:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Physics2296-424X2024-01-011110.3389/fphy.2023.13222321322232Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion networkLi Ma0Li Ma1Jinjin Wang2Jinjin Wang3Xinguan Dai4Xinguan Dai5Hangbiao Gao6College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, ChinaXi’an Key Laboratory of Heterogeneous Network Convergence Communication, Xi’an, ChinaCollege of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, ChinaXi’an Key Laboratory of Heterogeneous Network Convergence Communication, Xi’an, ChinaCollege of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, ChinaXi’an Key Laboratory of Heterogeneous Network Convergence Communication, Xi’an, ChinaSafety Supervision Department, Shaanxi Cuijiagou Energy Co., Ltd., Tongchuan, ChinaIn recent years, there has been increased interest in multispectral pedestrian detection using visible and infrared image pairs. This is due to the complementary visual information provided by these modalities, which enhances the robustness and reliability of pedestrian detection systems. However, current research in multispectral pedestrian detection faces the challenge of effectively integrating different modalities to reduce miss rates in the system. This article presents an improved method for multispectral pedestrian detection. The method utilises a saliency detection technique to modify the infrared image and obtain an infrared-enhanced map with clear pedestrian features. Subsequently, a multiscale image features fusion network is designed to efficiently fuse visible and IR-enhanced maps. Finally, the fusion network is supervised by three loss functions for illumination perception, light intensity, and texture information in conjunction with the light perception sub-network. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the logarithmic mean miss rate for the three main subgroups (all day, day and night) to 3.12%, 3.06%, and 4.13% respectively, at “reasonable” settings. This is an improvement over the traditional method, which achieved rates of 3.11%, 2.77%, and 2.56% respectively, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.1322232/fullmultispectral pedestrian detectionvisible and infrared imagesaliency detectionmultiscale feature fusionillumination perception
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Li Ma
Jinjin Wang
Jinjin Wang
Xinguan Dai
Xinguan Dai
Hangbiao Gao
Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
Frontiers in Physics
multispectral pedestrian detection
visible and infrared image
saliency detection
multiscale feature fusion
illumination perception
title Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
title_full Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
title_fullStr Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
title_full_unstemmed Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
title_short Deep saliency detection-based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi-scale features fusion network
title_sort deep saliency detection based pedestrian detection with multispectral multi scale features fusion network
topic multispectral pedestrian detection
visible and infrared image
saliency detection
multiscale feature fusion
illumination perception
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.1322232/full
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