Fast human detection in RGB-D images based on color-depth joint feature learning
Zhan Hu, Haizhou Ai, Haibing Ren, Yimin Zhang · 2016
Human detection in RGB-D images is an important yet very challenging task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel human detection approach in RGB-D images, which integrates ROI (region-of-interest) generation, depth-size relationship estimation and a human detector. Our approach has the following advantages: 1) ROI generation and depth-size relationship estimation take full advantage of color and depth information to fast reject about 70% negative samples while maintaining a high recall rate; 2) the cascade-structured human detector can seamlessly concatenate features extracted from both color and depth images; and 3) our method can detect human at a speed of more than 30 fps on 640 χ 480 images on a single laptop CPU without any GPU acceleration. Experiments on challenging public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.