Vision-based Pedestrian Protection Systems for Intelligent Vehicles

• Main Authors: Gerónimo, David (Author), López, Antonio M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Computer Science.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

Pedestrian Protection Systems (PPSs) are on-board systems aimed at detecting and tracking people in the surroundings of a vehicle in order to avoid potentially dangerous situations. These systems, together with other Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) such as lane departure warning or adaptiv...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Candidates Generation
• 3. Classification
• 4. Completing the System
• 5. Datasets and Benchmarking
• 6. Conclusions.