Unidimensional multiscale local features for object detection under rotation and mild occlusions

Abstract

In this article, scale and orientation invariant object detection is performed by matching intensity level histograms. Unlike other global measurement methods, the present one uses a local feature description that allows small changes in the histogram signature, giving robustness to partial occlusions. Local features over the object histogram are extracted during a Boosting learning phase, selecting the most discriminant features within a training histogram image set. The Integral Histogram has been used to compute local histograms in constant time. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.