Pedestrian Detection in CSharp

System Requirement

Component	Requirement	Detail
Emgu CV	Version 2.2.1	For GPU mode to be enabled please make sure the latest cuda graphic card driver from NVIDIA is installed.
Operation System	Cross Platform

Source code

      static void Run()
      {
         Image<Bgr, Byte> image = new Image<Bgr, byte>("pedestrian.png");

         Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
         Rectangle[] regions;

         //check if there is a compatible GPU to run pedestrian detection
         if (GpuInvoke.HasCuda) 
         {  //this is the GPU version
            using (GpuHOGDescriptor des = new GpuHOGDescriptor())
            using (GpuImage<Bgr, Byte> gpuImg = new GpuImage<Bgr,byte>(image))
            using (GpuImage<Bgra, Byte> gpuBgra = gpuImg.Convert<Bgra, Byte>())
            {
               des.SetSVMDetector(GpuHOGDescriptor.GetDefaultPeopleDetector());
               regions = des.DetectMultiScale(gpuBgra);
            }
         }
         else
         {  //this is the CPU version
            using (HOGDescriptor des = new HOGDescriptor())
            {
               des.SetSVMDetector(HOGDescriptor.GetDefaultPeopleDetector());
               regions = des.DetectMultiScale(image);
            }
         }
         watch.Stop();

         foreach (Rectangle pedestrain in regions)
         {
            image.Draw(pedestrain, new Bgr(Color.Red), 1);
         }

         ImageViewer.Show(
            image,
            String.Format("Pedestrain detection using {0} in {1} milliseconds.", 
               GpuInvoke.HasCuda ? "GPU" : "CPU", 
               watch.ElapsedMilliseconds));
      }

Performance Comparison

We have setup two workstations to test the performance of the pedestrian detection code. The first workstation is a Lenovo W510 laptop, equipped with a fast Core i7 Q720 CPU and a relatively slow Quadro FX 880M GPU. The second workstation is a white box desktop with a slower Pentium D and a EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FPB GPU. This graphic card was purchased recently for ~$100 USD and harness 192 CUDA cores running at 882MHz speed. This mid-range graphic card (using NVidia's Fermi architecture) is a good candidate for GPU processing consider its price point. As a comparison, the Quadro FX 880M has 48 CUDA cores at 550MHz and is quite under power for GPU processing. For optimal performance, the GeForce GTX 580 is available with more than twice the performance compares with GTS 450 according to NVidia's web site, Or the Telsa product line is available for mission critical application.

We run the example several times and the execution time for the 5th run is measured (such that the image and the binary should be cached in the memory).

CPU	GPU	Emgu CV Package	Execution Time (millisecond)
Core i7 Q720@1.6Ghz	NVidia Quadro FX 880M	libemgucv-windows-x64	760
Core i7 Q720@1.6Ghz	NVidia Quadro FX 880M	libemgucv-windows-x64-tbb-ipp-icc	506
Core i7 Q720@1.6Ghz	NVidia Quadro FX 880M	libemgucv-windows-x64-gpu	424
Core i7 Q720@1.6Ghz	NVidia Quadro FX 880M	libemgucv-windows-x64-gpu-tbb-ipp-icc	423
Pentium D 920@2.8Ghz	NVidia GeForce GTS 450	libemgucv-windows-x86	(TO BE UPDATED)
Pentium D 920@2.8Ghz	NVidia GeForce GTS 450	libemgucv-windows-x86-tbb-ipp-icc	1402
Pentium D 920@2.8Ghz	NVidia GeForce GTS 450	libemgucv-windows-x86-gpu	(TO BE UPDATED)
Pentium D 920@2.8Ghz	NVidia GeForce GTS 450	libemgucv-windows-x86-gpu-tbb-ipp-icc	124

Result