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16 December 2025

An Intelligent Surveillance Framework for Pedestrian Safety Under Low-Illuminance Street Lighting Conditions

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Department of Highway & Transportation Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang 10223, Republic of Korea
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 3413, Republic of Korea
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Department of Media and Communication Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

This study proposes an intelligent surveillance framework that integrates image preprocessing, illuminance-adaptive object detection, multi-object tracking, and pedestrian abnormal behavior recognition to address the rapid degradation of image recognition performance under low-illuminance street lighting conditions. In the preprocessing stage, image quality was enhanced by correcting color distortion and contour loss, while in the detection stage, illuminance-based loss weighting was applied to maintain high detection sensitivity even in dark environments. During the tracking process, a Kalman filter was employed to ensure inter-frame consistency of detected objects. In the abnormal behavior recognition stage, temporal motion patterns were analyzed to detect events such as falls and prolonged inactivity in real time. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method maintained an average detection accuracy of approximately 0.9 and adequate tracking performance in the 80% range under low-illuminance conditions, while also exhibiting stable recognition rates across various weather environments. Although slight performance degradation was observed under dense fog or highly crowded scenes, such limitations are expected to be mitigated through sensor fusion and enhanced processing efficiency. These findings experimentally demonstrate the technical feasibility of a real-time intelligent recognition system for nighttime street lighting environments.

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