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However, it remains difficult to make pedestrian detection systems perform well in highly dynamic environments, often requiring extensive retraining of the algorithms for specific conditions to reach satisfactory accuracy, which, in turn, requires large, annotated datasets captured in these conditions. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic decision-level sensor fusion method based on naive Bayes to improve the efficiency of the system by combining the output of available pedestrian detectors for colour and thermal images without retraining. The results in this paper, obtained through long-term experiments, demonstrate the efficacy of our technique, its ability to work with non-registered images, and its adaptability to cope with situations when one of the sensors fails. 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