Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests

This paper explores a discriminative part-based approach for recognising people in video. It uses many regions to model the background and foreground and a random forest for classification. The objective is to overcome the limitations of more holistic approaches that try to recognise people as a sin...

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Main Authors: John, Gladis, West, Geoffrey, Lazarescu, Mihai
Other Authors: J Zhang
Format: Conference Paper
Published: CPS (Conference Publishing Services) 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29268
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author John, Gladis
West, Geoffrey
Lazarescu, Mihai
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West, Geoffrey
Lazarescu, Mihai
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description This paper explores a discriminative part-based approach for recognising people in video. It uses many regions to model the background and foreground and a random forest for classification. The objective is to overcome the limitations of more holistic approaches that try to recognise people as a single region with the consequential need to segment each person as one representation. Attributes of each blob, their relationships and variation over video frames are argued to be useful features for discrimination. In this paper the attributes of each blob are considered as a first step in the recognition process. We evaluate our approach through a comparison of three state of the art classifiers: Bagging, Adaboost and a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), with the Random Forest (RF) using 10 fold cross validation. A detailed statistical analysis shows that the random forest classifier is more accurate compared to the other methods in terms of discrimination between regions describing people and those of the background.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-292682023-01-13T07:56:32Z Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests John, Gladis West, Geoffrey Lazarescu, Mihai J Zhang C Shen G Geers Q Wu recognition part-based segmentation region growing random forest evaluation This paper explores a discriminative part-based approach for recognising people in video. It uses many regions to model the background and foreground and a random forest for classification. The objective is to overcome the limitations of more holistic approaches that try to recognise people as a single region with the consequential need to segment each person as one representation. Attributes of each blob, their relationships and variation over video frames are argued to be useful features for discrimination. In this paper the attributes of each blob are considered as a first step in the recognition process. We evaluate our approach through a comparison of three state of the art classifiers: Bagging, Adaboost and a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), with the Random Forest (RF) using 10 fold cross validation. A detailed statistical analysis shows that the random forest classifier is more accurate compared to the other methods in terms of discrimination between regions describing people and those of the background. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29268 10.1109/DICTA.2010.68 CPS (Conference Publishing Services) fulltext
spellingShingle recognition
part-based
segmentation
region growing
random forest
evaluation
John, Gladis
West, Geoffrey
Lazarescu, Mihai
Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title_full Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title_fullStr Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title_full_unstemmed Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title_short Part Based Recognition of Pedestrians Using Multiple Features and Random Forests
title_sort part based recognition of pedestrians using multiple features and random forests
topic recognition
part-based
segmentation
region growing
random forest
evaluation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29268