Hough regions for joining instance localization and segmentation
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
Short Communication: A rectilinear Gaussian model for estimating straight-line parameters
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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Hough transform-based methods for detecting multiple objects use nonmaxima suppression or mode seeking to locate and distinguish peaks in Hough images. Such postprocessing requires the tuning of many parameters and is often fragile, especially when objects are located spatially close to each other. In this paper, we develop a new probabilistic framework for object detection which is related to the Hough transform. It shares the simplicity and wide applicability of the Hough transform but, at the same time, bypasses the problem of multiple peak identification in Hough images and permits detection of multiple objects without invoking nonmaximum suppression heuristics. Our experiments demonstrate that this method results in a significant improvement in detection accuracy both for the classical task of straight line detection and for a more modern category-level (pedestrian) detection problem.