A. K. M. Fahim Rahman

Work place: Computer Science and Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh

E-mail: fahim1615@cseku.ac.bd

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Research Interests: Image Processing, Image Manipulation, Image Compression, Computational Learning Theory, Computer systems and computational processes

Biography

K. M. Fahim Rahman is a student at Computer Science and Engineering Discipline, Khulna University. He was born on 18th September 1998. He involves in programming contests. His research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Image Processing.

Author Articles
Pedestrian Detection in Thermal Images Using Deep Saliency Map and Instance Segmentation

By A. K. M. Fahim Rahman Mostofa Rakib Raihan S.M. Mohidul Islam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2021.01.04, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2021

Pedestrian detection is an established instance of computer vision task. Pedestrian detection from the color images has achieved robust performance but in the night time or in bad light conditions it has low detection accuracy. Thermal images are used for detecting people at night time, foggy weather or in bad lighting situations when color images have a lower vision. But in the daytime where the surroundings are warm or warmer than pedestrians then the thermal image has lower accuracy. Hence thermal and color image pair can be a solution but it is expensive to capture color-thermal pair and misaligned imagery can cause low detection accuracy. We proposed a network that achieved better accuracy by extending the prior works which introduced the use of the saliency map in pedestrian detection tasks from the thermal images into instance-level segmentation. We worked on a subdivision of KAIST Multispectral Pedestrian Detection Dataset [8] which has pixel-level annotations. We have trained Mask-RCNN for pedestrian detection task and report the added effect of saliency maps generated using PiCA-Net. We have achieved an accuracy of 88.14% over day and 91.84% over night images. . So, our model has reduced the miss rate by 24.1% and 23% over the existing state-of-the-art method in day and night images.

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