Adaptive Fusion of Multi-Scale YOLO for Pedestrian Detection

Although pedestrian detection technology is constantly improving, pedestrian detection remains challenging because of the uncertainty and diversity of pedestrians in different scales and of occluded pedestrian modes. This study followed the common framework of single-shot object detection and proposed a divide-and-rule method to solve the aforementioned problems. The proposed model introduced a segmentation function that can split pedestrians who do not overlap in one image into two subimages. By using a network architecture, multiresolution adaptive fusion was performed on the output of all images and subimages to generate the final detection result. This study conducted an extensive evaluation of several challenging pedestrian detection data sets and finally proved the effectiveness of the proposed model. In particular, the proposed model achieved the most advanced performance on data sets from Visual Object Classes 2012 (VOC 2012), the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and obtained the most competitive results in a triple-width VOC 2012 experiment carefully designed by the present study.