The algorithm of nighttime pedestrian detection in intelligent surveillance for renewable energy power stations

• Main Authors: Bao Peng, Zhi-Bin Chen, Erkang Fu, Zi-Chuan Yi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-09-01
• Series: Energy Exploration & Exploitation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/0144598720913964
• ISSN: 0144-5987; 2048-4054

Intelligent surveillance is an important management method for the construction and operation of power stations such as wind power and solar power. The identification and detection of equipment, facilities, personnel, and behaviors of personnel are the key technology for the ubiquitous electricity The Internet of Things. This paper proposes a video solution based on support vector machine and histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) methods for pedestrian safety problems that are common in night driving. First, a series of image preprocessing methods are used to optimize night images and detect lane lines. Second, an image is divided into intelligent regions to be adapted to different road environments. Finally, the HOG and support vector machine methods are used to optimize the pedestrian image on a Linux system, which reduces the number of false alarms in pedestrian detection and the workload of the pedestrian detection algorithm. The test results show that the system can successfully detect pedestrians at night. With image preprocessing optimization, the correct rate of nighttime pedestrian detection can be significantly improved, and the correct rate of detection can reach 92.4%. After the division area is optimized, the number of false alarms decreases significantly, and the average frame rate of the optimized video reaches 28 frames per second.