A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm

Yue Sun; Yifeng Shao; Guanglin Yang; Haiyan Xie

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A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm

Yue Sun, Yifeng Shao, Guanglin Yang, Haiyan Xie

Published in American Journal of Optics and Photonics (Volume 9, Issue 3)

Received: 25 July 2021 Accepted: 9 August 2021 Published: 26 August 2021

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The principle of infrared image is thermal imaging technology. Infrared pedestrian detection technology can be applied to the safety monitoring of the elderly, which can not only protect personal privacy, but also realize pedestrian identification at night, which has strong application value and social significance. A method of infrared image pedestrian detection with improved YOLOv3 algorithm is proposed to increase the detection accuracy and solve the problem of low detection accuracy caused by infrared pedestrian target edge blurring. And according to the characteristics of infrared pedestrian, a complex sample data set is established which is applied to infrared pedestrian detection. The infrared image enhancement method with WDSR-B is adopted to improve the clarity of the data set. In addition, based on YOLOv3 algorithm, the output of the 4-time down-sampling layer is added to obtain richer context information for small targets and improve the detection performance of the network for small-target pedestrians. And the improved YOLOv3 network is trained by the enhanced infrared data set. Experimental results show that the scheme precision of pedestrian detection is higher than that of YOLOv3 algorithm. Therefore, this method can be applied to the detection of pedestrians at night and the safety monitoring of the elderly.

Published in	American Journal of Optics and Photonics (Volume 9, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajop.20210903.11
Page(s)	32-38
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Infrared Image, Pedestrian Detection, Neural Network

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Yue Sun, Yifeng Shao, Guanglin Yang, Haiyan Xie. (2021). A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm. American Journal of Optics and Photonics, 9(3), 32-38. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajop.20210903.11

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Yue Sun; Yifeng Shao; Guanglin Yang; Haiyan Xie. A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm. Am. J. Opt. Photonics 2021, 9(3), 32-38. doi: 10.11648/j.ajop.20210903.11

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Yue Sun, Yifeng Shao, Guanglin Yang, Haiyan Xie. A Method of Infrared Image Pedestrian Detection with Improved YOLOv3 Algorithm. Am J Opt Photonics. 2021;9(3):32-38. doi: 10.11648/j.ajop.20210903.11

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Yue Sun

Laboratory of Signal and Information Processing, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Yifeng Shao

Optics Research Group, Department of Imaging Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Guanglin Yang

Laboratory of Signal and Information Processing, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Haiyan Xie

Country China Science Patent and Trademark Agent, Beijing, China

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