Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions

Subwindow search aims to find the optimal subimage which maximizes the score function of an object to be detected. After the development of the branch and bound (B&B) method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS), several algorithms (IESS, AESS, ARCS) have been proposed to improve the performan...

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Main Authors: An, Senjian, Peursum, Patrick, Liu, Wanquan, Venkatesh, Svetha
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Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10983
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author An, Senjian
Peursum, Patrick
Liu, Wanquan
Venkatesh, Svetha
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An, Senjian
Peursum, Patrick
Liu, Wanquan
Venkatesh, Svetha
author_sort An, Senjian
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description Subwindow search aims to find the optimal subimage which maximizes the score function of an object to be detected. After the development of the branch and bound (B&B) method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS), several algorithms (IESS, AESS, ARCS) have been proposed to improve the performance of ESS. For n×n images, IESS's time complexity is bounded by O(n3) which is better than ESS, but only applicable to linear score functions. Other work shows that Monge properties can hold in subwindow search and can be used to speed up the search to O(n3), but only applies to certain types of score functions. In this paper we explore the connection between submodular functions and the Monge property, and prove that sub-modular score functions can be used to achieve O(n3) time complexity for object detection. The time complexity can be further improved to be sub-cubic by applying B&B methods on row interval only, when the score function has a multivariate submodular bound function. Conditions for sub-modularity of common non-linear score functions and multivariate submodularity of their bound functions are also provided, and experiments are provided to compare the proposed approach against ESS and ARCS for object detection with some nonlinear score functions.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-109832017-09-13T16:08:58Z Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions An, Senjian Peursum, Patrick Liu, Wanquan Venkatesh, Svetha Not known Subwindow search aims to find the optimal subimage which maximizes the score function of an object to be detected. After the development of the branch and bound (B&B) method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS), several algorithms (IESS, AESS, ARCS) have been proposed to improve the performance of ESS. For n×n images, IESS's time complexity is bounded by O(n3) which is better than ESS, but only applicable to linear score functions. Other work shows that Monge properties can hold in subwindow search and can be used to speed up the search to O(n3), but only applies to certain types of score functions. In this paper we explore the connection between submodular functions and the Monge property, and prove that sub-modular score functions can be used to achieve O(n3) time complexity for object detection. The time complexity can be further improved to be sub-cubic by applying B&B methods on row interval only, when the score function has a multivariate submodular bound function. Conditions for sub-modularity of common non-linear score functions and multivariate submodularity of their bound functions are also provided, and experiments are provided to compare the proposed approach against ESS and ARCS for object detection with some nonlinear score functions. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10983 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995355 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle An, Senjian
Peursum, Patrick
Liu, Wanquan
Venkatesh, Svetha
Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title_full Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title_fullStr Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title_full_unstemmed Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title_short Efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
title_sort efficient subwindow search with submodular score functions
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10983