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We present an experimental evaluation of Boosted Random Ferns in terms of the detection performance and the training data. We show that adding an iterative bootstrapping phase during the learning of the object classifier, it increases its detection rates given that additional positive and negative samples are collected (bootstrapped) for retraining the boosted classifier. After each bootstrapping iteration, the learning algorithm is concentrated on computing more discriminative and robust features (Random Ferns), since the bootstrapped samples extend the training data with more difficult images.
The resulting classifier has been validated in two different object datasets, yielding successful detections rates in spite of challenging image conditions such as lighting changes, mild occlusions and cluttered background.
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Projects RobTaskCoop (DPI2010-17112), PAU (DPI2008-06022), and MIPRCV (Consolider-Ingenio 2010)(CSD2007-00018), and the EU CEEDS Project FP7-ICT-2009-5-95682. The first author is funded by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
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Villamizar, M., Moreno-Noguer, F., Andrade-Cetto, J., Sanfeliu, A. (2011). Detection Performance Evaluation of Boosted Random Ferns. In: Vitrià, J., Sanches, J.M., Hernández, M. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21257-4_9
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