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Accelerate proposal generation in R-CNN methods for fast pedestrian extraction

Juncheng Wang (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Haidian-qu, China)
Guiying Li (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)

The Electronic Library

ISSN: 0264-0473

Article publication date: 27 June 2019

Issue publication date: 14 August 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to develop a novel region-based convolutional neural networks (R-CNN) approach that is more efficient while at least as accurate as existing R-CNN methods. In this way, the proposed method, namely R2-CNN, provides a more powerful tool for pedestrian extraction for person re-identification, which involve a huge number of images and pedestrian needs to be extracted efficiently to meet the real-time requirement.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed R2-CNN is tested on two types of data sets. The first one the USC Pedestrian Detection data set, which consists of three sub-sets USC-A, UCS-B and USC-C, with respect to their characteristics. This data set is used to test the performance of R2-CNN in the pedestrian extraction task. The speed and performance of the investigated algorithms were collected. The second data set is the PASCAL VOC 2007 data set, which is a common benchmark data set for object detection. This data set was used to analyze characteristics of R2-CNN in the case of general object detection task.

Findings

This study proposes a novel R-CNN method that is both more efficient and more accurate than existing methods. The method, when used as an object detector, would facilitate the data preprocessing stage of person re-identification.

Originality/value

The study proposes a novel approach for object detection, which shows advantages in both efficiency and accuracy for pedestrian detection task. It contributes to both data preprocessing for person re-identification and the research on deep learning.

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Citation

Wang, J. and Li, G. (2019), "Accelerate proposal generation in R-CNN methods for fast pedestrian extraction", The Electronic Library, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 435-453. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-09-2018-0191

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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