Our objective is to obtain a state-of-the art object category detector
\nby employing a state-of-the-art image classifier to search for the
\nobject in all possible image sub-windows. We use multiple kernel
\nlearning of Varma and Ray (ICCV 2007) to learn an optimal combination
\nof exponential chi-squared kernels, each of which captures a different
\nfeature channel. Our features include the distribution of edges, dense
\nand sparse visual words, and feature descriptors at different levels
\nof spatial organization.<\/p>\n
Such a powerful classifier cannot be tested on all image sub-windows
\nin a reasonable amount of time. Thus we propose a novel three-stage
\nclassifier, which combines linear, quasi-linear, and non-linear kernel
\nSVMs. We show that increasing the non-linearity of the kernels
\nincreases their discriminative power, at the cost of an increased
\ncomputational complexity. Our contributions include (i) showing that a
\nlinear classifier can be evaluated with a complexity proportional to
\nthe number of sub-windows (independent of the sub-window area and
\ndescriptor dimension); (ii) a comparison of three efficient methods of
\nproposing candidate regions (including the jumping window classifier
\nof~Chum and Zisserman (CVPR 2007) based on proposing windows from
\nscale invariant features); and (iii) introducing overlap-recall curves
\nas a mean to compare and optimize the performance of the intermediate
\npipeline stages.<\/p>\n
The method is evaluated on the PASCAL Visual Object Detection
\nChallenge, and exceeds the performances of previously published
\nmethods for most of the classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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