SAF: Semantic Attention Fusion Mechanism for Pedestrian Detection

Ruizhe Yu, Shunzhou Wang, Yao Lu*, Huijun Di, Lin Zhang, Lihua Lu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Benefiting from deep learning methods, pedestrian detection has witnessed a great progress in recent years. However, many pedestrian detectors are prone to detect background instances, especially under urban scenes, which results in plenty of false positive detections. In this paper, we propose a semantic attention fusion mechanism (SAF) to increase the discriminability of detector. The SAF includes two key components, attention modules and reverse fusion blocks. Different from previous attention mechanisms which use attention modules for re-weighting the top features of network directly, the outputs of our attention modules are fused by reverse fusion blocks from high level layers to low level layers step by step, which aims at generating strong semantic features for pedestrian detections. Experiments on CityPersons dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our SAF.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2019
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
EditorsAbhaya C. Nayak, Alok Sharma
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages523-533
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030299101
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019 - Yanuka Island, Fiji
Duration: 26 Aug 201930 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11671 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019
Country/TerritoryFiji
CityYanuka Island
Period26/08/1930/08/19

Keywords

  • Background errors
  • Pedestrian detection
  • Semantic attention

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