Scale Space Histogram of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection

Human detection is the task of finding presence and position of human beings in images, In this paper, we apply scale space theory to detection human in still images. By integrating scale space theory with histogram of oriented gradients(HOG), we designed a new feature descriptor called scale space histogam of oriented gradients (SS-HOG). SS-HOG focus on the multiple scale property of describe an object. Using HOGs at multiple scale, SS-HOG encodes more information to discriminate human bodies from other object types than traditional uni-scale HOGs Experiments on INRIA person dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.