Detection of sudden pedestrian crossings for driving assistance systems

• Main Authors: Han, Tony X., Xu, Yanwu, Xu, Dong, Lin, Stephen, Cao, Xianbin, Li, Xuelong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97129; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11446
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we study the problem of detecting sudden pedestrian crossings to assist drivers in avoiding accidents. This application has two major requirements: to detect crossing pedestrians as early as possible just as they enter the view of the car-mounted camera and to maintain a false alarm r...