The Impact of Partial Occlusion on Pedestrian Detectability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04812v6
• Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:57:21 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Partial Occlusion on Pedestrian Detectability
• Authors: Shane Gilroy, Darragh Mullins, Edward Jones, Ashkan Parsi and Martin Glavin
• Abstract summary: This research introduces a novel, objective benchmark for partially occluded pedestrian detection. It is used to facilitate the objective characterization of pedestrian detection models.
• Score: 5.606792370296115
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Robust detection of vulnerable road users is a safety critical requirement for the deployment of autonomous vehicles in heterogeneous traffic. One of the most complex outstanding challenges is that of partial occlusion where a target object is only partially available to the sensor due to obstruction by another foreground object. A number of leading pedestrian detection benchmarks provide annotation for partial occlusion, however each benchmark varies greatly in their definition of the occurrence and severity of occlusion. Recent research demonstrates that a high degree of subjectivity is used to classify occlusion level in these cases and occlusion is typically categorized into 2 to 3 broad categories such as partially and heavily occluded. This can lead to inaccurate or inconsistent reporting of pedestrian detection model performance depending on which benchmark is used. This research introduces a novel, objective benchmark for partially occluded pedestrian detection to facilitate the objective characterization of pedestrian detection models. Characterization is carried out on seven popular pedestrian detection models for a range of occlusion levels from 0-99%, in order to demonstrate the efficacy and increased analysis capabilities of the proposed characterization method. Results demonstrate that pedestrian detection performance degrades, and the number of false negative detections increase as pedestrian occlusion level increases. Of the seven popular pedestrian detection routines characterized, CenterNet has the greatest overall performance, followed by SSDlite. RetinaNet has the lowest overall detection performance across the range of occlusion levels.

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