title: Feature Selection and Pedestrian Detection Based on Sparse Representation.
abstract: Pedestrian detection have been currently devoted to the extraction of effective pedestrian features, which has become one of the obstacles in pedestrian detection application according to the variety of pedestrian features and their large dimension. Based on the theoretical analysis of six frequently-used features, SIFT, SURF, Haar, HOG, LBP and LSS, and their comparison with experimental results, this paper screens out the sparse feature subsets via sparse representation to investigate whether the sparse subsets have the same description abilities and the most stable features. When any two of the six features are fused, the fusion feature is sparsely represented to obtain its important components. Sparse subsets of the fusion features can be rapidly generated by avoiding calculation of the corresponding index of dimension numbers of these feature descriptors; thus, the calculation speed of the feature dimension reduction is improved and the pedestrian detection time is reduced. Experimental results show that sparse feature subsets are capable of keeping the important components of these six feature descriptors. The sparse features of HOG and LSS possess the same description ability and consume less time compared with their full features. The ratios of the sparse feature subsets of HOG and LSS to their full sets are the highest among the six, and thus these two features can be used to best describe the characteristics of the pedestrian and the sparse feature subsets of the combination of HOG-LSS show better distinguishing ability and parsimony.
authors: State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Shihong
authors: S
authors: Yao
authors: State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Tao
authors: T
authors: Wang
authors: State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Weiming
authors: W
authors: Shen
authors: State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Shaoming
authors: S
authors: Pan
authors: State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Yanwen
authors: Y
authors: Chong
authors: Information Processing and Communication Technology Lab, Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, Shanghai, China.
authors: Fei
authors: F
authors: Ding
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002947:Cities; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000069636:Pedestrians