Title
Spatiotemporal Stacked Sequential Learning For Pedestrian Detection
Abstract
Pedestrian classifiers decide which image windows contain a pedestrian. In practice, such classifiers provide a relatively high response at neighbor windows overlapping a pedestrian, while the responses around potential false positives are expected to be lower. An analogous reasoning applies for image sequences. If there is a pedestrian located within a frame, the same pedestrian is expected to appear close to the same location in neighbor frames. Therefore, such a location has chances of receiving high classification scores during several frames, while false positives are expected to be more spurious. In this paper we propose to exploit such correlations for improving the accuracy of base pedestrian classifiers. In particular, we propose to use two-stage classifiers which not only rely on the image descriptors required by the base classifiers but also on the response of such base classifiers in a given spatiotemporal neighborhood. More specifically, we train pedestrian classifiers using a stacked sequential learning (SSL) paradigm. We use a new pedestrian dataset we have acquired from a car to evaluate our proposal at different frame rates. We also test on well known dataset, Caltech. The obtained results show that our SSL proposal boosts detection accuracy significantly with a minimal impact on the computational cost. Interestingly, SSL improves more the accuracy at the most dangerous situations, i.e. when a pedestrian is close to the camera.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-19390-8_1
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS (IBPRIA 2015)
Field
DocType
Volume
Pedestrian,Computer science,Random subspace method,Artificial intelligence,Pedestrian detection,Sequence learning,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Frame rate,Optical flow,Spurious relationship,Machine learning,False positive paradox
Journal
9117
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.39
References 
Authors
24
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alejandro González1664.07
Sebastian Ramos230.39
David Vázquez348828.04
Antonio M. López473954.13
Jaume Amores533120.01