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Multispectral Deep Neural Networks for Pedestrian Detection

8 Nov 2016arXiv:1611.02644archive 2025-07-28

Jingjing Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Shu Wang, Dimitris N. Metaxas

Multispectral pedestrian detection is essential for around-the-clock applications, e.g., surveillance and autonomous driving. We deeply analyze Faster R-CNN for multispectral pedestrian detection task and then model it into a convolutional network (ConvNet) fusion problem. Further, we discover that ConvNet-based pedestrian detectors trained by color or thermal images separately provide complementary information in discriminating human instances. Thus there is a large potential to improve pedestrian detection by using color and thermal images in DNNs simultaneously. We carefully design four ConvNet fusion architectures that integrate two-branch ConvNets on different DNNs stages, all of which yield better performance compared with the baseline detector. Our experimental results on KAIST pedestrian benchmark show that the Halfway Fusion model that performs fusion on the middle-level convolutional features outperforms the baseline method by 11% and yields a missing rate 3.5% lower than the other proposed architectures.

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2D Object Detection3D Object DetectionMultispectral Object DetectionObject DetectionPedestrian Detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Object Detection DroneVehicle HalfwayFusion Val/mAP50 68.2 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Multispectral Object Detection KAIST Multispectral Pedestrian Detection Benchmark Halfway Fusion All Miss Rate 49.18 #14 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection EventPed Early-Fusion AP 47.4 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection InOutDoor Early-Fusion AP 58.3 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection STCrowd Early-Fusion AP 54.4 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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ConvolutionFaster R-CNNRPNRoIPoolSoftmax

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