Pedestrian detection via a leg-driven physiology framework

In this paper, we propose a leg-driven physiology framework for pedestrian detection. The framework is introduced to reduce the search space of candidate regions of pedestrians. Given a set of vertical line segments, we can generate a space of rectangular candidate regions, based on a model of body proportions. The proposed framework can be either integrated with or without learning-based pedestrian detection methods to validate the candidate regions. A symmetry constraint is then applied to validate each candidate region to decrease the false positive rate. The experiment demonstrates the promising results of the proposed method by comparing it with Dalal & Triggs method. For example, rectangular regions detected by the proposed method has much similar area to the ground truth than regions detected by Dalal & Triggs method.