PEDESTRIAN DETECTION DEVICE AND PEDESTRIAN DETECTION METHOD

摘要

A near-infrared night vision device (1) to which a pedestrian detection device is applied includes a near-infrared projector (10), a near-infrared camera (12), a display (14) and an ECU (20). By executing programs, the ECU (20)constitutes a pedestrian candidate extraction portion (21) and a determination portion (22). The pedestrian candidate extraction portion (21) extracts pedestrian candidate regions from near-infrared images. The determination portion (22) normalizes the sizes and the brightnesses of the pedestrian candidates extracted by the pedestrian candidate extraction portion (21), and then computes the degrees of similarity between the normalized pedestrian candidates. The determination portion (22) determines that a pedestrian candidate having two or more other pedestrian candidates whose degrees of similarity with the pedestrian candidate is greater than or equal to a predetermined value is not a pedestrian.