Title
Contour-Hog: A Stub Feature Based Level Set Method For Learning Object Contour
Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of learning objects by contours. Toward this goal, we propose a novel curve evolution scheme which provides the classifier with more accurate contour representations. We detect edgelet feature to help localize objects in images so that the proposed evolution method can achieve more reliable contours. To capture contours of objects with large variations in pose and appearance, we adopt the similarity measure of HOG feature between the evolving contour and the contour of a class as the evaluation criteria rather than relying on strong shape priors. We encode the joint distribution of the edgelet feature, the HOG feature and the curvature feature of an object in a mixture of Gaussian model. Classification is achieved by computing the posterior of the evolved contour conditioned on the three types of features. Our method is extensively evaluated on the UCF sports dataset, the Caltech 101 dataset, and the INRIA pedestrian dataset. Results show that our method achieves improved performance for the recognition task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.5244/C.26.15
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE 2012
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer vision,Stub (electronics),Pattern recognition,Level set method,Computer science,Learning object,Artificial intelligence,Feature based
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhi Yang121.05
Yu Kong241224.72
Yun Fu34267208.09