2019/05/16 by Mohamed Afifi, Afifi, Mohamed, Yara Ali +7
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1905.06653
openalex publication_date 2019/05/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Detection of pedestrians in aerial imagery captured by drones has many applications including intersection monitoring, patrolling, and surveillance, to name a few. However, the problem is involved due to continuouslychanging camera viewpoint and object appearance as well as the need for lightweight algorithms to run on on-board embedded systems. To address this issue, the paper proposes a framework for pedestrian detection in videos based on the YOLO object detection network [6] while having a high throughput of more than 5 FPS on the Jetson TX2 embedded board. The framework exploits deep learning for robust operation and uses a pre-trained model without the need for any additional training which makes it flexible to apply on different setups with minimum amount of tuning. The method achieves ~81 mAP when applied on a sample video from the Embedded Real-Time Inference (ERTI) Challenge where pedestrians are monitored by a UAV.