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Journal of Zhejiang University (Science Edition)  2017, Vol. 44 Issue (2): 134-138    DOI: 10.3785/j.issn.1008-9497.2017.02.002
    
A dimension reduction method of the histogram of oriented gradients
FU Hongpu1,2, ZOU Beiji1
1. Ministry of Education-China Mobile Joint Laboratory for Mobile Health, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. Department of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha 410205, China
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Abstract  To characterize the local object appearance and shape, histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) divide an image window into small spatial regions (cells), and accumulate a local 1-D histogram of gradient directions over the pixels of the cell. The normalized combined histogram entering of a larger spatial region (blocks, are consisted of several cells) forms the representation. In order to weaken regional quantization aliasing, blocks are partly overlapped when HOG is computed in detection windows. Yet, it will increase the dimension vastly. So, it will bring extra computation for object detection application. By expanding the area (spatial region) where pixel gradients are interpolated between neighbor cells' centers, and setting the scale of block Gaussian weights properly, the overlapped area between blocks is cancelled. Then, the dimension of HOG feature in a 64×128 detection window reduces from 3 780 to 1 152, and region quantized errors are decreased. Experiment results on INRIA pedestrian dataset show that the performance of the 1 152-dimensional HOG and that of the original HOG are almost the same, however, its detecting speed is significantly improved.

Key wordshistograms of oriented gradients      dimension reduction      linear interpolation      overlapping sampling      pedestrian detection     
Received: 25 July 2016      Published: 08 July 2017
CLC:  TP391.41  
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FU Hongpu, ZOU Beiji. A dimension reduction method of the histogram of oriented gradients. Journal of Zhejiang University (Science Edition), 2017, 44(2): 134-138.

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一种方向梯度直方图的降维方法

为描述对象的局部外观和形状,方向梯度直方图首先将图像划分成小区域(被称为cell),然后在其上累加像素梯度方向的一维直方图.在被称为block的较大区域(由数个相邻的cell组成)上连接cell的直方图,经归一化处理形成特征向量.为减弱由block引起的区域量化走样,在计算检测窗口的特征时,采取部分重叠block的措施,从而大大增加了特征维度以及目标检测时的计算量.通过扩大参与相邻cell之间像素梯度插值的面积,并设置适当的高斯平滑核尺度,可消除block重叠,从而将64×128尺寸的窗口的方向梯度直方图特征维度由3 780降低为1 152.INRIA的行人数据集实验表明,该方法也可减弱区域量化走样,且其性能与原方向梯度直方图几乎相当,而检测速度却显著提高.

关键词: 方向梯度直方图,  降维,  线性插值,  重叠采样,  行人检测 
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