Hough forests for object detection, tracking, and action recognition

Abstract—The paper introduces Hough forests, which are random forests adapted to perform a generalized Hough transform in an efficient way. Compared to previous Hough-based systems such as implicit shape models, Hough forests improve the performance of the generalized Hough transform for object dete...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1998. - 33(2011), 11 vom: 04. Nov., Seite 2188-202
Auteur principal: Gall, Juergen (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Yao, Angela, Razavi, Nima, Van Gool, Luc, Lempitsky, Victor
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2011
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:Abstract—The paper introduces Hough forests, which are random forests adapted to perform a generalized Hough transform in an efficient way. Compared to previous Hough-based systems such as implicit shape models, Hough forests improve the performance of the generalized Hough transform for object detection on a categorical level. At the same time, their flexibility permits extensions of the Hough transform to new domains such as object tracking and action recognition. Hough forests can be regarded as task-adapted codebooks of local appearance that allow fast supervised training and fast matching at test time. They achieve high detection accuracy since the entries of such codebooks are optimized to cast Hough votes with small variance and since their efficiency permits dense sampling of local image patches or video cuboids during detection. The efficacy of Hough forests for a set of computer vision tasks is validated through experiments on a large set of publicly available benchmark data sets and comparisons with the state-of-the-art
Description:Date Completed 24.02.2012
Date Revised 01.12.2011
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2011.70