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DETECTING CURVED OBJECTS AGAINST CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS

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Date Issued:
2008
Abstract/Description:
Detecting curved objects against cluttered backgrounds is a hard problem in computer vision. We present new low-level and mid-level features to function in these environments. The low-level features are fast to compute, because they employ an integral image approach, which makes them especially useful in real-time applications. The mid-level features are built from low-level features, and are optimized for curved object detection. The usefulness of these features is tested by designing an object detection algorithm using these features. Object detection is accomplished by transforming the mid-level features into weak classifiers, which then produce a strong classifier using AdaBoost. The resulting strong classifier is then tested on the problem of detecting heads with shoulders. On a database of over 500 images of people, cropped to contain head and shoulders, and with a diverse set of backgrounds, the detection rate is 90% while the false positive rate on a database of 500 negative images is less than 2%.
Title: DETECTING CURVED OBJECTS AGAINST CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS.
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Name(s): Prokaj, Jan, Author
Lobo, Niels, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2008
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Detecting curved objects against cluttered backgrounds is a hard problem in computer vision. We present new low-level and mid-level features to function in these environments. The low-level features are fast to compute, because they employ an integral image approach, which makes them especially useful in real-time applications. The mid-level features are built from low-level features, and are optimized for curved object detection. The usefulness of these features is tested by designing an object detection algorithm using these features. Object detection is accomplished by transforming the mid-level features into weak classifiers, which then produce a strong classifier using AdaBoost. The resulting strong classifier is then tested on the problem of detecting heads with shoulders. On a database of over 500 images of people, cropped to contain head and shoulders, and with a diverse set of backgrounds, the detection rate is 90% while the false positive rate on a database of 500 negative images is less than 2%.
Identifier: CFE0002102 (IID), ucf:47535 (fedora)
Note(s): 2008-05-01
M.S.
Engineering and Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Masters
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Subject(s): computer vision
pattern recognition
object detection
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002102
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Host Institution: UCF

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