HUMAN DETECTION APPARATUS

摘要

The knowledge that “the color of a vehicle body or guard rail is uniform” applies to the detection of a human, improving the detection performance of the human of which a part of the body is hidden. That is, it is determined whether or not a human candidate area specified based on the ordinary human recognition model has a specific part, e.g., an area corresponding to a lower body, exhibiting the high degree of color uniformity. When affirmed, the human candidate area is understood to be “a human of which a part of the body is hidden by a hood or a trunk” and recognized as a human, same as in the case where the body is not hidden.

主权项

1. A human detection apparatus to detect a human by pattern recognition from an input image picked up by an image pickup unit, the human detection apparatus comprising:
a specification section to specify a candidate area from the input image using a recognition model to recognize a human, the candidate area being estimated as a human; a color determination section to determine a degree of color uniformity in the input image; and a human determination section to determine whether an image area including the candidate area is a human based on a positional relationship between the candidate area specified by the specification section and an image part, the image part providing the degree of color uniformity determined by the color determination section that satisfies a prescribed requirement.