Improved detection in cars could make roads safer for pedestrians

As smart and self-driving vehicles gain more momentum, the technologies around detection systems improve and become more reliable. And as humans who occasionally cross streets, who wouldn’t want improved pedestrian detection?

First picked up by Phys.org, engineers at the University of California, San Diego have been working on the CompACT detection system for vehicles, which specifically looks for pedestrians. According to the team’s report, the CompACT detectors film and analyze at 2-4 frames per second, detecting people in real time based on a complicated algorithm, and it's pretty accurate. Read more...