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We present an approach to vision-based person detection in robotic applications that integrates top down template matching with bottom up classifiers. We detect components of the human silhouette, such as torso and legs; this approach provides greater invariance than monolithic methods to the wide variety of poses a person can be in. We detect borders on each image, then apply a distance transform, and then match templates at different scales. This matching process generates a focus of attention (candidate people) that are later confirmed using a trained Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Our results show that this method is both fast and precise and directly applicable in robotic architectures.
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Castillo, C., Chang, C. (2005). An Approach to Vision-Based Person Detection in Robotic Applications. In: Marques, J.S., Pérez de la Blanca, N., Pina, P. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11492429_26
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