Title
Depth-based detection with region comparison features.
Abstract
Depth data is a rich source of information, yet sensitive to background noise.We propose Region Comparison (RC) features for body part detection tasks.RC features allow for fast and effective body part detection in noisy depth images.Our evaluation shows that RC features yield an improvement over the state-of-the-art.The RC features do not require an additional computational budget. Most object detection approaches proposed over the years rely on visual features that help to segregate objects from their backgrounds. For instance, segregation may be facilitated by depth features because they provide direct access to the third dimension. Such access enables accurate object-background segregation. Although they provide a rich source of information, depth images are sensitive to background noise. This paper addresses the issue of handling background noise for accurate foreground-background segregation. It presents and evaluates the Region Comparison (RC) features for fast and accurate body part detection. RC features are depth features inspired by the well-known Viola-Jones detector. Their performances are compared to the recently proposed Pixel Comparison (PC) features, which were designed for fast and accurate object detection from Kinect-generated depth images. The results of our evaluation reveal that RC features outperform PC features in detection accuracy and computational efficiency. From these results we may conclude that RC features are to be preferred over PC features to achieve accurate and fast object detection in noisy depth images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jvcir.2016.02.008
J. Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Face detection,Person detection,Depth data,Haar-like features,Random forest classifier,Integral image representation,Region comparion,Kinect
Computer vision,Object detection,Background noise,Object-class detection,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Haar-like features,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Face detection,Random forest,Detector
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
C
1047-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
31
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruud Mattheij141.08
Kim Groeneveld210.35
Eric O. Postma319527.10
H. Jaap van den Herik4861137.51