Improved object detection and pose using part-based models

Abstract

Automated object detection is perhaps the most central task of computer vision and arguably the most difficult one. This paper extends previous work on part-based models by using accurate geometric models both in the learning phase and at detection. In the learning phase manual annotations are used to reduce perspective distortion before learning the part-based models. That training is performed on rectified images, leads to models which are more specific, reducing the risk of false positives. At the same time a set of representative object poses are learnt. These are used at detection to remove perspective distortion. The method is evaluated on the bus category of the Pascal dataset with promising results. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.