NeuroIV: Neuromorphic Vision Meets Intelligent Vehicle Towards Safe Driving With a New Database and Baseline EvaluationsShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print), ISSN 1524-9050, E-ISSN 1558-0016, Vol. 23, no 2, p. 1171-1183Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Neuromorphic vision sensors such as the Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor (DAVIS) using silicon retina are inspired by biological vision, they generate streams of asynchronous events to indicate local log-intensity brightness changes. Their properties of high temporal resolution, low-bandwidth, lightweight computation, and low-latency make them a good fit for many applications of motion perception in the intelligent vehicle. However, as a younger and smaller research field compared to classical computer vision, neuromorphic vision is rarely connected with the intelligent vehicle. For this purpose, we present three novel datasets recorded with DAVIS sensors and depth sensor for the distracted driving research and focus on driver drowsiness detection, driver gaze-zone recognition, and driver hand-gesture recognition. To facilitate the comparison with classical computer vision, we record the RGB, depth and infrared data with a depth sensor simultaneously. The total volume of this dataset has 27360 samples. To unlock the potential of neuromorphic vision on the intelligent vehicle, we utilize three popular event-encoding methods to convert asynchronous event slices to event-frames and adapt state-of-the-art convolutional architectures to extensively evaluate their performances on this dataset. Together with qualitative and quantitative results, this work provides a new database and baseline evaluations named NeuroIV in cross-cutting areas of neuromorphic vision and intelligent vehicle.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 23, no 2, p. 1171-1183
Keywords [en]
Neuromorphics, Vision sensors, Intelligent sensors, Intelligent vehicles, Cameras, Neuromorphic vision, distracted driving, advanced driver assistance system, database and baseline evaluations, event encoding, deep learning
National Category
Computer graphics and computer vision Signal Processing Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-309072DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3022921ISI: 000750200400040Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104099888OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-309072DiVA, id: diva2:1640948
Note
QC 20220228
2022-02-282022-02-282025-02-01Bibliographically approved