Fast Pedestrian Detection Using a Cascade of Boosted Covariance Features

Efficiently and accurately detecting pedestrians plays a very important role in many computer vision applications such as video surveillance and smart cars. In order to find the right feature for this task, we first present a comprehensive experimental study on pedestrian detection using state-of-the-art locally extracted features (e.g., local receptive fields, histogram of oriented gradients, and region covariance). Building upon the findings of our experiments, we propose a new, simpler pedestrian detector using the covariance features. Unlike the work in [1], where the feature selection and weak classifier training are performed on the Riemannian manifold, we select features and train weak classifiers in the Euclidean space for faster computation. To this end, AdaBoost with weighted Fisher linear discriminant analysis-based weak classifiers are designed. A cascaded classifier structure is constructed for efficiency in the detection phase. Experiments on different datasets prove that...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCSV
• Authors: Sakrapee Paisitkriangkrai, Chunhua Shen, Jian Zhang 0002
• Keywords: Covariance, Pedestrian Detectors, TCSV 2008, Weak Classifiers