Survey of Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

This paper will discuss how advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), and particularly pedestrian protection systems (PPSs), have become an active research area aimed at improving traffic safety. The major challenge of PPSs is the development of reliable on-board pedestrian detection systems. Due to the varying appearance of pedestrians (e.g., different clothes, changing size, aspect ratio, and dynamic shape) and the unstructured environment, it is very difficult to cope with the demanded robustness of this kind of system. Two problems arising in this research area are the lack of public benchmarks and the difficulty in reproducing many of the proposed methods, which makes it difficult to compare the approaches. As a result, surveying the literature by enumerating the proposals one after another is not the most useful way to provide a comparative point of view. Accordingly, the authors present a more convenient strategy to survey the different approaches. The authors divide the problem of detecting pedestrians from images into different processing steps, each with attached responsibilities. Then, the different proposed methods are analyzed and classified with respect to each processing stage, favoring a comparative viewpoint. Finally, discussion of the important topics is presented, putting special emphasis on the future needs and challenges.

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• Authors:
  • Geronimo, David
  • Lopez, Antonio M
  • Sappa, Angel Domingo
  • Graf, Thorsten
• Publication Date: 2010-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1239-1258
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1062-8828

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver support systems; Pedestrian detectors; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian traffic; Protection; Surveys; Vehicle design
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01165024
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 16 2010 9:11AM