Research and Implementation of Real-Time Pedestrian Detection Algorithm

Abstract

Pedestrian detection has a broad application prospect in automotive assisting driving system, but the real time performance is very poor in most common used detection methods. This paper presents a fast algorithm to realize the real-time pedestrian detection. The Local Binary Patterns (LBP) is used to describe the local texture information with the feature of less calculation, the HOG classifier to extract a typical feature of pedestrian’s edge, and then SVM to train and classify on the databases of INRIA and MIT. While scanning the images, interest regions are extracted to speed up the detection. Series of experiment results shows that the proposed pedestrian detecting strategy is effective and efficient.