Pedestrian detection based on I-HOG feature

Pedestrian detection is a hot and difficult topic in the computer vision field. The Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature, because of its high performance in accuracy, is widely used in pedestrian detection. Nonetheless, its information description capacity needs further improvement. so , I-HOG (Improved HOG) was proposed. I-HOG has two major improvements. First, I-HOG enhances the description of edge features. Through the different scales for the block histograms of a set of correlation graphs, makes the correlation between characteristic information. Second, I-HOG using multi-scale feature extraction methods, include wider edge feature description information, make up for the deficiencies of the HOG feature, because HOG features are only extracted in fixed block size, The experimental results show that in the INRIA database, using I-HOG, detection rate increased by 5.4% and 4.3% respectively, combined with the feature of CSS after detection rate increased by 2.8% and 4.0% respectively compared to the HOG.