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In this chapter we present a vision-based pedestrian tracking system targeting a specific application: avoiding accidents in the blind spot zone of trucks. Existing blind spot safety systems do not offer a complete solution to this problem. Therefore we propose an active alarm system, which automatically detects vulnerable road users in blind spot camera images, and warns the truck driver about their presence. The demanding time constraint, the need for a high accuracy and the large distortion that a blind spot camera introduces makes this a challenging task. To achieve this we propose a warping window multi-pedestrian tracking algorithm. Our algorithm achieves real-time performance while maintaining high accuracy. To evaluate our algorithm we recorded several pedestrian datasets with a real blind spot camera mounted on a real truck, consisting of realistic simulated dangerous blind spot situations. Furthermore we recorded and performed preliminary experiments with datasets including bicyclists.
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Van Beeck, K., Goedemé, T., Tuytelaars, T. (2014). Real-Time Vision-Based Pedestrian Detection in a Truck’s Blind Spot Zone Using a Warping Window Approach. In: Ferrier, JL., Bernard, A., Gusikhin, O., Madani, K. (eds) Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 283. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03500-0_16
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