Chinese Journal of Intelligent Science and Technology ›› 2021, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (3): 294-303.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-6652.202130

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Anchor free multispectral pedestrian detection algorithm based on differential feature attention mechanism

Jifeng SHEN1, Yue1 LIU1, Hao WEI2, Xin ZUO3, Wankou YANG4   

  1. 1 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
    2 China Electric Haikang Group Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 310000, China
    3 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
    4 School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210003, China
  • Revised:2021-08-12 Online:2021-09-15 Published:2021-09-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61903164);The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20191427)

Abstract:

Multispectral pedestrian detection system suffers with low feature fusion quality, high quantity of model hyper-parameters and complex anchor matching algorithm.To deal with these problems, an anchor free multispectral pedestrian detection algorithm based on differential feature attention mechanism was proposed.Firstly, differential modality aware fusion was used to obtain the complementary information between different modalities to optimize the channel features.Secondly, the CenterNet detection framework with anchor free mechanism was adopted to greatly reduce the computational complexity of the model and thus improve the detection speed.Finally, differential feature guided attention mechanism was introduced to improve the quality of feature fusion and further enhance the detection accuracy.Experimental results on three open datasets, KAIST, CVC14 and FLIR, show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the detection accuracy and speed compared with the current advanced methods, and has a good practical application prospect.

Key words: multispectral pedestrian detection, anchor free mechanism, CenterNet model, attention mechanism

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