How to estimate Contrast to the Background?

Kurzfassung

The increasing use of artificial intelligence in automated driving raises concerns about safety. How can we ensure that an autonomous driving vehicle is safe? And how can we increase this safety? One of the main concerns of this topic is the successful and reliable detection of pedestrians. One of the main causes for unsuccessful detections is the contrast to the background. In this work we will try to compute the contrast of a person to their background without using AI models. This should help to build a safety argumentation for AI-based perception systems.