Efficient pedestrian detection in top-view fisheye images using compositions of perspective view patches

Sheng Ho Chiang, Tsai-Pei Wang*, Yi Fu Chen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Pedestrian detection in images is a topic that has been studied extensively, but existing detectors designed for perspective images do not perform as successfully on images taken with top-view fisheye cameras, mainly due to the orientation variation of people in such images. In our proposed approach, several perspective views are generated from a fisheye image and then concatenated to form a composite image. As pedestrians in this composite image are more likely to be upright, existing detectors designed and trained for perspective images can be applied directly without additional training. We also describe a new method of mapping detection bounding boxes from the perspective views to the fisheye frame. The detection performance on several public datasets compare favorably with state-of-the-art results.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104069
Pages (from-to)1-8
Number of pages8
JournalImage and Vision Computing
Volume105
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Fisheye cameras
  • Omnidirectional cameras
  • Pedestrian detection

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