On-road vehicle detection by cascaded classifiers

  • Authors:
  • Rudra N. Hota;Kishore Jonna;P. Radha Krishna

  • Affiliations:
  • Infosys Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad, India;Infosys Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad, India;Infosys Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Bangalore Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present an efficient algorithm for on-road vehicle (e.g. side and rear view of cars) detection problem using cascade of boosted classifiers. Adaptive boosting based classifier in cascaded structure is one of the few good approaches for object detection. This approach filters different non-target (negative) samples in different stages of cascaded structure according to their level of similarity with target object class. The boosted weak learners are quick and efficient for initial stages only, but in later stage of cascaded structure they are not efficient enough to remove the critical false alarms. In this paper, we propose a method of cascading complex features at the later stage of cascaded classifier to enhance the detection performance. We compared the performance of local and global texture features in combination with boosted haar like features. The best performance for on-road obstacle detection is achieved by Adaboost with Haar-like feature along with SVM and Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features.