A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm

The principle of infrared image is thermal imaging technology. Infrared pedestrian detection technology can be applied to the safety monitoring of the elderly, which can not only protect personal privacy, but also realize pedestrian identification at night, which has strong application value and social significance. A method of infrared image pedestrian detection with improved YOLOv3 algorithm is proposed to increase the detection accuracy and solve the problem of low detection accuracy caused by infrared pedestrian target edge blurring. And according to the characteristics of infrared pedestrian, a complex sample data set is established which is applied to infrared pedestrian detection. The infrared image enhancement method with WDSR-B is adopted to improve the clarity of the data set. In addition, based on YOLOv3 algorithm, the output of the 4-time down-sampling layer is added to obtain richer context information for small targets and improve the detection performance of the network for small-target pedestrians. And the improved YOLOv3 network is trained by the enhanced infrared data set. Experimental results show that the scheme precision of pedestrian detection is higher than that of YOLOv3 algorithm. Therefore, this method can be applied to the detection of pedestrians at night and the safety monitoring of the elderly.