Browsing by Subject "motion analysis"

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    DeepStep: Direct Detection of Walking Pedestrian From Motion by a Vehicle Camera
    (IEEE, 2022-06-28) Kilicarslan, Mehmet; Zheng, Jiang Yu; Computer and Information Science, School of Science
    Pedestrian detection has wide applications in intelligent transportation. It is essential to understand pedestrian’s position and action instantaneously for autonomous driving. Most algorithms divide these tasks into sequential procedures where pedestrians are detected from shape-based features in video frames, and their behaviors are analyzed with frame tracking. Different from those, this work introduces a deep learning-based pedestrian detection method that only uses motion cues. The pedestrian motion, which is much different from that of static background and dynamic vehicles, is investigated in the spatial-temporal domain. The pedestrian leg movement forms a chain-type trace in the motion profile images even if the ego-vehicle moves. Instead of modeling walking actions based on kinematics, the chain structure is directly learned from a large pedestrian dataset in driving videos. This method works for the more challenging scenes observed on moving vehicles than those scenes from static cameras. The aim is to detect not only pedestrians promptly but also predict their walking direction in the driving space. Since a video is reduced to temporal images, real-time performance is achieved with a high mean average precision and a low false-positive rate on a publicly available dataset.
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    Visual Counting of Traffic Flow from a Car via Vehicle Detection and Motion Analysis
    (Springer, 2020) Kolcheck, Kevin; Wang, Zheyuan; Xu, Haiyan; Zheng, Jiang Yu; Computer and Information Science, School of Science
    Visual traffic counting so far has been carried out by static cameras at streets or aerial pictures from sky. This work initiates a new approach to count traffic flow by using populated vehicle driving recorders. Mainly vehicles are counted by a camera moves along a route on opposite lane. Vehicle detection is first implemented in video frames by using deep learning YOLO3, and then vehicle trajectories are counted in the spatial-temporal space called motion profile. Motion continuity, direction, and detection missing are considered to avoid multiple counting of oncoming vehicles. This method has been tested on naturalistic driving videos lasting for hours. The counted vehicle numbers can be interpolated as a flow of opposite lanes from a patrol vehicle for traffic control. The mobile counting of traffic is more flexible than the traffic monitoring by cameras at street corners.