We provide five different datasets captured with several sensor types, including a stereo camera, an RGB-D camera and a time-of-flight camera. Each of the single datasets consists of two separate sequences from different locations around and within our research institute. All sequences were captured with all named depth sensors at the same time, therefore providing the same situations for each sensor. As a result, behaviour and capability of person detection algorithms can be benchmarked given the same 3D scenes, but in different quality due to the sensor data.
To capture the datasets, we utilized a Summit XL from Robotnik and equipped it with a Nerian SP1 stereo camera system, an ASUS Xtion Pro Live RGB-D camera and a Fotonic E70P time-of-flight camera.
Whereas the stereo as well as the RGB-D camera provided images with VGA resolution, the Fotonic E70P is limited to QQVGA.
All 3D person datasets can be used with our framework CS::APEX which is available via GitHub.
The annotations always contain the time stamp / the id of the data quadruple. Regions of interest are provided for depth and intensity / color images. We formulate two different visibility levels or class with '1' for fully visible persons and '2' for only partially visible people. Implicitly, '0' is the code of 'non-human' or 'non-visible'. Theses are also the classification labels used by CS::APEX.
There are always four files, one from each folder, which belong together and have the same name, but different extensions. To order all files in to a continuous sequence, the file names are based on Unix time stamps in relation to the recording sessions.
CS::APEX configuration files for 3D person detection on the indoor datasets can be found here.
CS::APEX configuration files for 3D person detection on the outdoor datasets can be found here.
To achieve generally comparability of person detection approaches, we recommend using the Intersection over Union (IoU) metric for evaluation. This is a commonly used metric for benchmarking problems using 2D bounding rectangles.
The IoU measures the quality of ground truth / detection association, not only in terms of position but also in terms of shape.
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