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This paper addresses the task of estimating the orientation of pedestrians from monocular images provided by an automotive camera. From an initial detection of a pedestrian, we analyze the area within their bounding box and give an estimation of the orientation. Using ground truth mocap data, we define the orientations as a direction and a rough human pose. A random forest classifier trained on this data using HOG features assigns each detected pedestrian to their orientation cluster. Evaluation of the method is performed on a new dataset and on a publicly available dataset showing improved results.
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Lallemand, J., Ronge, A., Szczot, M., Ilic, S. (2014). Pedestrian Orientation Estimation. In: Jiang, X., Hornegger, J., Koch, R. (eds) Pattern Recognition. GCPR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8753. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11752-2_39
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