Ranklets: Orientation Selective Non-Parametric Features Applied to Face Detection

  • Authors:
  • Fabrizio Smeraldi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 3 - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We introduce a family of multiscale, orientation-selective, non-parametric features ("ranklets") Modelled on Haar wavelets. We clarify their relation to the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and the rank transfor and provide an efficient scheme for computation based on the Mann-Whitney statistics. Finally, we show that ranklets outperform other rank features, Haar wavelets, SNoW and linear SVMs (based on independently published results) in face detection experiments over the 24'045 test images in the MIT-CBCL database.