Title
Boosted cascade of scattered rectangle features for object detection.
Abstract
This paper presents a variant of Haar-like feature used in Viola and Jones detection framework, called scattered rectangle feature, based on the common-component analysis of local region feature. Three common components, feature filter, feature structure and feature form, are extracted without concerning the details of the studied region features, which cast a new light on region feature design for specific applications and requirements: modifying some component(s) of a feature for an improved one or combining different components of existing features for a new favorable one. Scattered rectangle feature follows the former way, extending the feature structure component of Haar-like feature out of the restriction of the geometry adjacency rule, which results in a richer representation that explores much more orientations other than horizontal, vertical and diagonal, as well as misaligned, detached and non-rectangle shape information that is unreachable to Haar-like feature. The training result of the two face detectors in the experiments illustrates the benefits of scattered rectangle feature empirically; the comparison of the ROC curves under a rigid and objective detection criterion on MIT+CMU upright face test set shows that the cascade based on scattered rectangle features outperforms that based on Haar-like features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s11432-009-0034-8
Science in China Series F: Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
roc curve
Diagonal,Adjacency list,Computer vision,Object detection,Feature detection (computer vision),Pattern recognition,Feature (computer vision),Feature structure,Rectangle,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Test set
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
2
18622836
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weize Zhang161.18
Ruofeng Tong246649.69
Jinxiang Dong331165.36