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Combination of high-level features with low-level features for detection of pedestrian

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In this paper, we present two high-level features for combining with low-level features. The reason for our use of “high level” and “low level” terms is the ability of features in extracting global and local, respectively, specifications of the objects. We specify the detection result of each feature for a given sample by a score and then add the score of all features to make the final decision. Evaluation results over the cropped images of INRIA dataset for three low-level features including histogram of gradient (HOG), convolutional neural network and Haar, in combination with neural network and SVM as the classifier, show that combining the high-level features with different low-level features, on average, leads to 2.5–7 % increase in detection rate (DR). Also evaluation results on full images of INRIA dataset for two different detectors including: HOG \(+\) neural network and channel features \(+\) boosted decision tree reveal an increase of approximately 5 and 3 % in DR for these two detectors, respectively. Repeating the experiments on more challenging datasets such as Caltech and TUD-Brussels also show an increase of approximately 3 and 1 % for these two detectors, respectively. Overall, combining the high-level features with the low-level features yields at least an increase of 1 % in DR and in some cases, the increase value even reaches to a maximum of 5 %, while the surplus computational burden is only 8 % more than the original detectors.

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    Fariba Takarli & Hadi Seyedarabi

  2. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran

    Ali Aghagolzadeh

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Takarli, F., Aghagolzadeh, A. & Seyedarabi, H. Combination of high-level features with low-level features for detection of pedestrian. SIViP 10, 93–101 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-014-0706-8

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