Noise Robust Hard Example Mining for Human Detection with Efficient Depth-Thermal Fusion

Abstract

Identity-preserving human detection is important for the privacy-protecting applications. IPHD [1] is a newly collected identity-preserving dataset that only contains depth and thermal images, which have much less information than RGB images. While less information and weakly labeled ground-truth boxes make it difficult to locate the objects correctly. In this paper, we adopt an efficient depth-thermal fusion approach to combine these two different inputs and enhance the representation. Moreover, a noise robust hard example mining algorithm is proposed to deal with weakly labeled data. The experiments show that our single model with single scale testing can get the AP=88.1 at IoU=0.5, which is a significant improvement compared with other competition results.