关键词: 行人检测；低照度；YOLOv4-Tiny；注意力机制；深度学习

Abstract: The quality of pedestrian images collected by autonomous vehicle mounted cameras in low illumination traffic scenes is poor due to insufficient lighting and complex environments, and subsequent detection algorithms are difficult to ensure sufficient detection accuracy. Therefore, in response to the problem of poor pedestrian detection performance in low illumination traffic scenes, this paper proposes a pedestrian detection algorithm based on improved YOLOv4-Tiny. First of all, the output of 8 times down sampling feature map is increased for the backbone network, and the deep semantic information and shallow semantic information are fused from bottom to top to enhance the detection ability for small targets. At the same time, the attention mechanism module is introduced before the fusion of different feature maps, making the network pay more attention to key feature information. Secondly, SPP-Net is used to improve the Receptive field and robustness of the network. Using K-means clustering algorithm to generate a new prior box for pedestrian targets, replacing traditional non maximum suppression methods with Soft-NMS method. The improved network model is labeled YOLO-IPD, and experiments have shown that the YOLO-IPD model proposed in the article performs well on a self built dataset.

Key words: Pedestrian detection; Low illumination; YOLOv4-Tiny; Attention mechanism; Deep learning