Deep Learning based Pedestrian Detection at all Light Conditions

Abstract

Multispectral pedestrian detection is becoming increasingly important in the field of computer vision due to its applications in driver assistance, surveillance, and monitoring. In this paper, we propose a brightness aware model for pedestrian detection using deep learning. A novel brightness aware mechanism depicts various illumination conditions, so as to enable prediction of day/ night scenario. Based on the detection of the brightness aware mechanism, a color or thermal model is used to detect pedestrians under day or night conditions respectively. The proposed method trained on FLIR-ADAS Thermal dataset and PASCAL VOC Color dataset, has achieved a mAP of ‘81.27%’, which outperforms the current state of the art.