The aim of this thesis arises in the context of Embedded-vision system for road obstacles detection and recognition : application to driver assistance systems. Following a literature review, we found that the problem of road obstacle detection, especially pedestrians, by using an on-board camera, cannot be adequately resolved without resorting to object recognition techniques. Thus, a preliminary study of the recognition process is presented, including the techniques of image representation, Classification and information fusion. The contributions of this thesis are organized around these three axes. Our first contribution is the design of a local appearance model based on SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) features and represented in a hierarchical Codebook. This model shows considerable robustness with respect to significant intra-class variation of object appearance and shape. However, the price for this robustness typically is that it tends to produce a significant number of false positives. This proves the need for integration of discriminative techniques in order to accurately categorize road objects. A second contribution presented in this thesis focuses on the combination of the Hierarchical Codebook with an SVM classifier.Our third contribution concerns the study of the implementation of a multimodal fusion module that combines information from visible and infrared spectrum. This study highlights and verifies experimentally the complementarities between the proposed local and global features, on the one hand, and visible and infrared spectrum on the other hand. In order to reduce the complexity of the overall system, a two-level classification strategy is proposed. This strategy, based on belieffunctions, enables to speed up the classification process without compromising there cognition performance. A final contribution provides a synthesis across the previous ones and involves the implementation of a fast pedestrian detection systemusing a far-infrared camera. This system was validated with different urban road scenes that are recorded from an onboard camera.

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