Multi-scale feature enhancement for pedestrian detection in complex events: the elephant in the room
摘要
Pedestrian detection is a critical component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Although state-of-the-art detectors perform well under normal traffic conditions, they struggle in congested, panicked, and irregular motion scenarios, where pedestrians often exhibit frequent occlusions, diverse postures, and unstable movements. Accurately detecting pedestrians in these challenging environments is difficult, as it requires not only maintaining high confidence for each detected pedestrian but also precisely predicting bounding box parameters for pedestrians of varying scales within the same scene. To this end, we follow the divide-and-conquer strategy of mainstream detectors and propose a Deep Aggregation Layer (DLA) network for cross-stage feature enhancement, called MFEDet (Multi-scale Feature Enhancement Detector). Extensive experiments on 2 popular and challenging pedestrian datasets, HiEve and CUHK Occlusion, demonstrate that MFEDet achieves optimal balance between speed and accuracy compared to baseline models. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/YanJieWen/DLA_YOLOv3-for-complex-events.