  Although deep-learning based methods for monocular pedestrian detection have
made great progress, they are still vulnerable to heavy occlusions. Using
multi-view information fusion is a potential solution but has limited
applications, due to the lack of annotated training samples in existing
multi-view datasets, which increases the risk of overfitting. To address this
problem, a data augmentation method is proposed to randomly generate 3D
cylinder occlusions, on the ground plane, which are of the average size of
pedestrians and projected to multiple views, to relieve the impact of
overfitting in the training. Moreover, the feature map of each view is
projected to multiple parallel planes at different heights, by using
homographies, which allows the CNNs to fully utilize the features across the
height of each pedestrian to infer the locations of pedestrians on the ground
plane. The proposed 3DROM method has a greatly improved performance in
comparison with the state-of-the-art deep-learning based methods for multi-view
pedestrian detection.
