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1. Computer Science › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

   Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection

   Dalal and Triggs · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2005

   The paper tests feature sets for human detection with a linear SVM, shows that grids of histogram of oriented gradient descriptors outperform existing ones, and introduces a harder pedestrian dataset.

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   1. UncheckedFine-scale gradients, fine orientation binning, coarse spatial binning and good contrast normalisation in overlapping blocks all matter for HOG human detection.“We study the influence of each stage of the computation on performance, concluding that fine-scale gradients, fine orientation binning, relatively coarse spatial binning, and high-quality local contrast normalization in overlapping descriptor blocks are all important for good results.”