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Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) is one of the well-known features for object recognition. HOG features are calculated by taking orientation histograms of edge intensity in a local region. N.Dalal et al. proposed an object detection algorithm in which HOG features were extracted from all locations of a dense grid on a image region and the combined features are classified by using linear Support Vector Machine (SVM). In this paper, we employ HOG features extracted from all locations of a grid on the image as candidates of the feature vectors. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to these HOG feature vectors to obtain the score (PCA-HOG) vectors. Then a proper subset of PCA-HOG feature vectors is selected by using Stepwise Forward Selection (SFS) algorithm or Stepwise Backward Selection (SBS) algorithm to improve the generalization performance. The selected PCA-HOG feature vectors are used as an input of linear SVM to classify the given input into pedestrian/non-pedestrian. The improvement of the recognition rates are confirmed through experiments using MIT pedestrian dataset.
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Kobayashi, T., Hidaka, A., Kurita, T. (2008). Selection of Histograms of Oriented Gradients Features for Pedestrian Detection. In: Ishikawa, M., Doya, K., Miyamoto, H., Yamakawa, T. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4985. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69162-4_62
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