2024/08/02 by Xiangbo Gao, Gao, Xiangbo, Asiegbu Miracle Kanu-Asiegbu +3 · 5 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Automated Road and Building Extraction #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.2408.01037
openalex publication_date 2024/08/02 · openalex created_date 2025/01/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper proposes MambaST, a plug-and-play cross-spectral spatial-temporal fusion pipeline for efficient pedestrian detection. Several challenges exist for pedestrian detection in autonomous driving applications. First, it is difficult to perform accurate detection using RGB cameras under dark or low-light conditions. Cross-spectral systems must be developed to integrate complementary information from multiple sensor modalities, such as thermal and visible cameras, to improve the robustness of the detections. Second, pedestrian detection models are latency-sensitive. Efficient and easy-to-scale detection models with fewer parameters are highly desirable for real-time applications such as autonomous driving. Third, pedestrian video data provides spatial-temporal correlations of pedestrian movement. It is beneficial to incorporate temporal as well as spatial information to enhance pedestrian detection. This work leverages recent advances in the state space model (Mamba) and proposes a novel Multi-head Hierarchical Patching and Aggregation (MHHPA) structure to extract both fine-grained and coarse-grained information from both RGB and thermal imagery. Experimental results show that the proposed MHHPA is an effective and efficient alternative to a Transformer model for cross-spectral pedestrian detection. Our proposed model also achieves superior performance on small-scale pedestrian detection. The code is available at https://github.com/XiangboGaoBarry/MambaSThttps://github.com/XiangboGaoBarry/MambaST.