Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
533047 Pattern Recognition 2017 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a two-step method to speed-up object detection systems in computer vision that use support vector machines as classifiers. In the first step we build a hierarchy of classifiers. On the bottom level, a simple and fast linear classifier analyzes the whole image and rejects large parts of the background. On the top level, a slower but more accurate classifier performs the final detection. We propose a new method for automatically building and training a hierarchy of classifiers. In the second step we apply feature reduction to the top level classifier by choosing relevant image features according to a measure derived from statistical learning theory. Experiments with a face detection system show that combining feature reduction with hierarchical classification leads to a speed-up by a factor of 335 with similar classification performance.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Computer Science Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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