Learning to find pictures of people

Sergey Ioffe, David Forsyth

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Abstract

Finding articulated objects, like people, in pictures presents a particularly difficult object recognition problem. We show how to find people by finding putative body segments, and then constructing assemblies of those segments that are consistent with the constraints on the appearance of a person that result from kinematic properties. Since a reasonable model of a person requires at least nine segments, it is not possible to present every group to a classifier. Instead, the search can be pruned by using projected versions of a classifier that accepts groups corresponding to people. We describe an efficient projection algorithm for one popular classifier, and demonstrate that our approach can be used to determine whether images of real scenes contain people.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 - Proceedings of the 1998 Conference, NIPS 1998
PublisherNeural information processing systems foundation
Pages782-788
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0262112450, 9780262112451
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes
Event12th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1998 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: Nov 30 1998Dec 5 1998

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Other

Other12th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1998
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period11/30/9812/5/98

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing

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