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An efficient divide-and-conquer cascade for nonlinear object detection

2010

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We introduce a method to accelerate the evaluation of object detection cascades with the help of a divide-and-conquer procedure in the space of candidate regions. Compared to the exhaustive procedure that thus far is the state-of-the-art for cascade evaluation, the proposed method requires fewer evaluations of the classifier functions, thereby speeding up the search. Furthermore, we show how the recently developed efficient subwindow search (ESS) procedure [11] can be integrated into the last stage of our method. This allows us to use our method to act not only as a faster procedure for cascade evaluation, but also as a tool to perform efficient branch-and-bound object detection with nonlinear quality functions, in particular kernelized support vector machines. Experiments on the PASCAL VOC 2006 dataset show an acceleration of more than 50% by our method compared to standard cascade evaluation.

Author(s): Lampert, CH.
Journal: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)
Pages: 1022-1029
Year: 2010
Month: June
Day: 0
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540107
Event Name: Twenty-Third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)
Event Place: San Francisco, CA, USA

Address: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Digital: 0
Institution: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN: 978-1-424-47029-7
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@inproceedings{6770,
  title = {An efficient divide-and-conquer cascade for nonlinear object detection},
  author = {Lampert, CH.},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)},
  pages = {1022-1029},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
  month = jun,
  year = {2010},
  doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540107},
  month_numeric = {6}
}