Pedestrian detection with thermopiles using an occupancy grid

D. Linzmeier
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The increase in road safety has been an essential issue for car manufacturers for the past two decades. While present sensor systems mainly focus on the validated detection of conventional crash partners like other vehicles or poles, there is still a lack for a reliable and cost efficient solution for the detection of pedestrians. In this context, a passive infrared system is a viable alternative mainly due to its affordability and environment-friendliness. A pedestrian detection system based on infrared (IR) sensors is presented. The system consists of an array of thermopile sensors which are arranged on the front bumper of the automobile in a way that the region of interest (ROI) is covered by the sensors field of view (FOV). Since thermopiles do not provide distance information, the sensor arrangement should also facilitate object localization. The optimal sensor arrangement is computed through an optimization algorithm. However, for an accurate position estimation, the sensor arrangement should be supported by suitable probabilistic techniques. For this reason, an approach was developed to map the measurements by means of a sensor model to an occupancy grid. The grid contains a probabilistic value in each cell and is ego-motion compensated. The combination of the optimized sensor arrangement and the occupancy grid technique are discussed here and a reliable method for the position estimation of pedestrians is presented.
使用占用网格的热电堆进行行人探测
在过去的二十年里,道路安全的提高一直是汽车制造商的一个重要问题。虽然目前的传感器系统主要集中在对传统碰撞伙伴(如其他车辆或电线杆)的有效检测上,但仍然缺乏可靠且经济高效的行人检测解决方案。在这种情况下,被动红外系统是一种可行的替代方案,主要是因为它的可负担性和环保性。提出了一种基于红外传感器的行人检测系统。该系统由一组热电堆传感器组成,这些传感器排列在汽车的前保险杠上,其感兴趣区域(ROI)被传感器的视野(FOV)覆盖。由于热电堆不提供距离信息,传感器的布置也应便于物体定位。通过优化算法计算出传感器的最优配置。然而,为了获得准确的位置估计,传感器的布置应该得到适当的概率技术的支持。为此,开发了一种方法,通过传感器模型将测量结果映射到占用网格。网格在每个单元中包含一个概率值,并进行自我运动补偿。本文讨论了传感器优化布置与占用网格技术的结合,提出了一种可靠的行人位置估计方法。
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