Citation
Bansal, M., Wu, S., & Eledath, J., (June 2009). “Pedestrian association and localization in monocular FIR video sequence,” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2009. CVPR Workshops 2009. IEEE Computer Society Conference on, vol., no., pp.38,45, 20-25.
Abstract
This paper addresses the frame-to-frame data association and state estimation problems in localization of a pedestrian relative to a moving vehicle from a monocular far infra-red video sequence. Using a novel application of the hierarchical model-based motion estimation framework, we are able to use the image appearance information to solve the frame-to-frame data association problem and estimate a sub-pixel accurate height ratio for a pedestrian in two frames. Then, to localize the pedestrian, we propose a novel approach of using the pedestrian height ratio estimates to guide an interacting multiple-hypothesis-mode/height filtering algorithm instead of using a constant pedestrian height model. Experiments on several IR sequences demonstrate that this approach achieves results comparable to those from a known pedestrian height thus avoiding errors from a constant height model based approach.
