Recognition of Texting-While-Walking by Joint Features Based on Arm and Head Poses

Pedestrians “texting-while-walking” increase the risk of traffic accidents, since they are often not paying attention to their surrounding environments and fails to notice approaching vehicles. Thus, the recognition of texting-while-walking from an in-vehicle camera should be helpful for safety driving assistance. In this paper, we propose a method to recognize a pedestrian texting-while-walking from in-vehicle camera images. The proposed approach focuses on the characteristic relationship between the arm and the head poses observed during a texting-while-walking behavior. In this paper, Pose-Dependent Joint HOG feature is proposed as a novel feature, which uses parts locations as prior knowledge and describes the cooccurrence of the arm and the head poses. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we constructed a dataset and evaluated it.