A Parallel Convolutional Neural Network for Pedestrian Detection

Abstract

Pedestrian detection is a crucial task in many vision-based applications, such as video surveillance, human activity analysis and autonomous driving. Recently, most of the existing pedestrian detection frameworks only focus on the detection accuracy or model parameters. However, how to balance the detection accuracy and model parameters, is still an open problem for the practical application of pedestrian detection. In this paper, we propose a parallel, lightweight framework for pedestrian detection, named ParallelNet. ParallelNet consists of four branches, each of them learns different high-level semantic features. We fused them into one feature map as the final feature representation. Subsequently, the Fire module, which includes Squeeze and Expand parts, is employed for reducing the model parameters. Here, we replace some convolution modules in the backbone with Fire modules. Finally, the focal loss is led into the ParallelNet for end-to-end training. Experimental results on the Caltech–Zhang dataset and KITTI dataset show that: Compared with the single-branch network, such as ResNet and SqueezeNet, ParallelNet has improved detection accuracy with fewer model parameters and lower Giga Floating Point Operations (GFLOPs).

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