A Study on Faster R-CNN-Based Subway Pedestrian Detection with ACE Enhancement

• Main Authors: Hongquan Qu, Meihan Wang, Changnian Zhang, Yun Wei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
• Series: Algorithms
• Subjects: subway pedestrian detection; sample calibration; faster R-CNN; automatic color enhancement (ACE); false and miss detection
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/11/12/192

At present, the problem of pedestrian detection has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision. The faster regions with convolutional neural network features (Faster R-CNN) are regarded as one of the most important techniques for studying this problem. However, the detection capability of the model trained by faster R-CNN is susceptible to the diversity of pedestrians’ appearance and the light intensity in specific scenarios, such as in a subway, which can lead to the decline in recognition rate and the offset of target selection for pedestrians. In this paper, we propose the modified faster R-CNN method with automatic color enhancement (ACE), which can improve sample contrast by calculating the relative light and dark relationship to correct the final pixel value. In addition, a calibration method based on sample categories reduction is presented to accurately locate the target for detection. Then, we choose the faster R-CNN target detection framework on the experimental dataset. Finally, the effectiveness of this method is verified with the actual data sample collected from the subway passenger monitoring video.