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  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

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  • Infrared pedestrian detection faces challenges like low resolution, poor contrast, complex backgrounds, and target occlusion.
  • These factors lead to indistinct target features, hindering accurate detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To enhance the accuracy of infrared pedestrian target detection.
  • To address challenges posed by low-quality images and complex environmental factors.

Main Methods:

  • A preprocessing technique to suppress background noise and extract visible image color information.
  • An information fusion residual block with a U-shaped structure and residual connections for feature extraction.
  • A contour information-guided attention mechanism for depth feature extraction.
  • mIoU clustering for dataset-specific anchor frame generation and a hybrid loss function for improved adaptability.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method significantly outperforms comparative algorithms in pedestrian detection tasks.
  • Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the contour-guided approach.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method effectively improves infrared pedestrian detection accuracy.
  • Contour information guidance is a promising strategy for enhancing feature extraction in challenging detection scenarios.