Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization

Recently, a simple yet powerful branch-and-bound method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS) was developed to speed up sliding window search in object detection. A major drawback of ESS is that its computational complexity varies widely from O(n2) to O(n4) for n × n matrices. Our experimental exp...

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Main Authors: An, S., Peursum, P., Liu, Wan-Quan, Venkatesh, S.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34590
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author An, S.
Peursum, P.
Liu, Wan-Quan
Venkatesh, S.
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Peursum, P.
Liu, Wan-Quan
Venkatesh, S.
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description Recently, a simple yet powerful branch-and-bound method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS) was developed to speed up sliding window search in object detection. A major drawback of ESS is that its computational complexity varies widely from O(n2) to O(n4) for n × n matrices. Our experimental experience shows that the ESS's performance is highly related to the optimal confidence levels which indicate the probability of the object's presence. In particular, when the object is not in the image, the optimal subwindow scores low and ESS may take a large amount of iterations to converge to the optimal solution and so perform very slow. Addressing this problem, we present two significantly faster methods based on the linear-time Kadane's Algorithm for 1D maximum subarray search. The first algorithm is a novel, computationally superior branchand- bound method where the worst case complexity is reduced to O(n3). Experiments on the PASCAL VOC 2006 data set demonstrate that this method is significantly and consistently faster (approximately 30 times faster on average) than the original ESS. Our second algorithm is an approximate algorithm based on alternating search, whose computational complexity is typically O(n2). Experiments shows that (on average) it is 30 times faster again than our first algorithm, or 900 times faster than ESS. It is thus wellsuited for real time object detection. ©2009 IEEE. [1] H. Bay, T. Tuytelaars, and L. J. Gool. SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features. In Proceedings of ECCV, 2006. 1.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-345902017-09-13T15:11:16Z Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization An, S. Peursum, P. Liu, Wan-Quan Venkatesh, S. Recently, a simple yet powerful branch-and-bound method called Efficient Subwindow Search (ESS) was developed to speed up sliding window search in object detection. A major drawback of ESS is that its computational complexity varies widely from O(n2) to O(n4) for n × n matrices. Our experimental experience shows that the ESS's performance is highly related to the optimal confidence levels which indicate the probability of the object's presence. In particular, when the object is not in the image, the optimal subwindow scores low and ESS may take a large amount of iterations to converge to the optimal solution and so perform very slow. Addressing this problem, we present two significantly faster methods based on the linear-time Kadane's Algorithm for 1D maximum subarray search. The first algorithm is a novel, computationally superior branchand- bound method where the worst case complexity is reduced to O(n3). Experiments on the PASCAL VOC 2006 data set demonstrate that this method is significantly and consistently faster (approximately 30 times faster on average) than the original ESS. Our second algorithm is an approximate algorithm based on alternating search, whose computational complexity is typically O(n2). Experiments shows that (on average) it is 30 times faster again than our first algorithm, or 900 times faster than ESS. It is thus wellsuited for real time object detection. ©2009 IEEE. [1] H. Bay, T. Tuytelaars, and L. J. Gool. SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features. In Proceedings of ECCV, 2006. 1. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34590 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206822 restricted
spellingShingle An, S.
Peursum, P.
Liu, Wan-Quan
Venkatesh, S.
Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title_full Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title_fullStr Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title_full_unstemmed Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title_short Efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
title_sort efficient algorithms for subwindow search in object detection and localization
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34590