GFD-SSD: Gated Fusion Double SSD for Multispectral Pedestrian Detection

Understand

Pedestrian detection is an essential task in autonomous driving research.

• In addition to typical color images, thermal images benefit the detection in dark environments.
• Hence, it is worthwhile to explore an integrated approach to take advantage of both color and thermal images simultaneously.
• In this paper, we propose a novel approach to fuse color and thermal sensors using deep neural networks (DNN).