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Background prior and boundary weight-based pedestrian segmentation in infrared images

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Pedestrian segmentation in infrared images is a difficult problem for the defects of low SNR and inhomogeneous luminance distribution. In this paper, we propose a method which aims to obtain the accurate pedestrian segmentation through a background prior and boundary weight-based saliency. Background likelihood is firstly calculated as background prior to get an abstract representation for infrared pedestrian. Then, by considering the object-center prior, the object-biased Gaussian model is applied to derive the probability density estimation for pedestrians. Finally, the above two results are integrated with the boundary weight to obtain the final saliency map for infrared image, based on which pedestrians can be easily segmented. Experimental results on real infrared images captured by intelligent transportation systems demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach against the state-of-the-art algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages839-843
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399616
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Aug 2016
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 25 Sep 201628 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period25/09/1628/09/16

Keywords

  • Background prior
  • Infrared image
  • Pedestrian segmentation
  • Saliency

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