An empirical study of context in object detection

Santosh K. Divvala, Derek Hoiem, James H. Hays, Alexei A. Efros, Martial Hebert

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the role of context in a contemporary, challenging object detection task - the PASCAL VOC 2008. Previous experiments with context have mostly been done on home-grown datasets, often with non-standard baselines, making it difficult to isolate the contribution of contextual information. In this work, we present our analysis on a standard dataset, using topperforming local appearance detectors as baseline. We evaluate several different sources of context and ways to utilize it. While we employ many contextual cues that have been used before, we also propose a few novel ones including the use of geographic context and a new approach for using object spatial support.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2009
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1271-1278
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781424439935
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009 - Miami, FL, United States
Duration: Jun 20 2009Jun 25 2009

Publication series

Name2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Other

Other2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami, FL
Period6/20/096/25/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'An empirical study of context in object detection'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this