PT Unknown
AU Marco Pedersoli
   Jordi Gonzalez
   Juan J. Villanueva
TI High-Speed Human Detection Using a Multiresolution Cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients
BT 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
PY 2009
VL 5524
DI 10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_8
AB This paper presents a new method for human detection based on a multiresolution cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that can highly reduce the computational cost of the detection search without affecting accuracy. The method consists of a cascade of sliding window detectors. Each detector is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) composed by features at different resolution, from coarse for the first level to fine for the last one.Considering that the spatial stride of the sliding window search is affected by the HOG features size, unlike previous methods based on Adaboost cascades, we can adopt a spatial stride inversely proportional to the features resolution. This produces that the speed-up of the cascade is not only due to the low number of features that need to be computed in the first levels, but also to the lower number of detection windows that needs to be evaluated.Experimental results shows that our method permits a detection rate comparable with the state of the art, but at the same time a gain in the speed of the detection search of 10-20 times depending on the cascade configuration.
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