This work presents the vision-based system for detecting pedestrians in road environments implemented on the ARGO prototype vehicle developed by the University of Parma. The system is aimed at the localization of pedestrians in various poses, positions and clothing, and is not limited to moving people. Initially, attentive vision techniques relying on the search for specific characteristics of ...

We identified risk factors for road traffic injuries among road users who received treatment at two major trauma hospitals in urban Gambia. The study includes pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and drivers/passengers of cars and trucks. We examined distributions of injury by age, gender, collision vehicle types and vehicle category, and driver and environment factors. Two hundred and fifty...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the present work was to study the impact of technological and social distraction on cautionary behaviours and crossing times in pedestrians. METHODS Pedestrians were observed at 20 high-risk intersections during 1 of 3 randomly assigned time windows in 2012. Observers recorded demographic and behavioural information, including use of a mobile device (talking on the...

This work presents a vision-based system for detecting and localizing pedestrians in road environments by means of a statistical technique. Initially, attentive vision techniques relying on the search for specific characteristics of pedestrians such as vertical symmetry and strong presence of edges, allow to select interesting regions likely to contain pedestrians. These regions are then used t...

While traditional street design relied upon segregating vehicles and pedestrians in urban areas to ensure smooth traffic flow, urban planners and traffic engineers are gradually moving away from it. Instead, under the more modern concept of integrated street design, more space and freedom of action is provided to pedestrians, the needs of whom were previously omitted. An example space to have u...

We describe a method for populating large virtual environments with crowds of virtual pedestrians. Pedestrians are distributed in the environment by giving them goal destinations to reach. In order to facilitate this population setup, we assign identical destinations to batch of pedestrians, resulting in navigation flows. In order to preserve individuality of pedestrians, navigation is planned ...

Pedestrian injuries and fatalities are one of the most significant problems related to travel and road safety. Pedestrians are vulnerable users of roads and due to the very different velocities and mass when compared to vehicles like cars and trucks, and very often they undergo serious injuries in case of collisions. Older pedestrians are even more vulnerable to injuries and fatalities due to (...

Gaining insights into pedestrian flow operations and assessment tools for pedestrian walking speeds and comfort is important in, for instance, planning and geometric design of infrastructural facilities, as well as for management of pedestrian flows under regular and safety-critical circumstances. Pedestrian flow operations are complex, and vehicular flow simulation modelling approaches are gen...

Pedestrians captured from real world surveillance cameras can often be in frontal view. This is true for surveillance cameras installed in bridges and corridors. Surveillance cameras in these environments are often oriented in the direction along the passage. In such a setting, many of the walking pedestrians would often appear to be approaching the camera. In this paper, we focus on the detect...