Group Cost-Sensitive BoostLR With Vector Form Decorrelated Filters for Pedestrian Detection

Pedestrian detection has achieved notable progress in the field of computer vision over the past decade. However, existing top-performing approaches suffer from high computational complexity which prohibits their realization on embedded platforms with low computational capabilities. In this paper, we propose a robust and fast pedestrian detection framework which is based on the Filtered Channel Feature (FCF) approach. The proposed framework exploits vector-form decorrelated filters to extract more discriminative channel features while benefiting from low computational complexity. A novel group cost-sensitive BoostLR (Boosting with Loss Regularization) algorithm is proposed to train the classifier. The proposed training strategy provides more emphasis to the harder samples by exploring the variations of negatives selected from different rounds in hard negative mining processing, and hence is able to boost the overall detection performance. In addition, the proposed method also benefits from the BoostLR framework to achieve better generalization. Experiments on the well-known Caltech, INRIA and CityPersons pedestrian detection datasets show that our proposed approach achieves the best detection performance among all of the state-of-the-art non-deep learning methods and can run one order of magnitude faster than classical FCF methods (e.g. Checkerboards).