Improved Pedestrian Detection Based on Extended Histogram of Oriented Gradients

In order to further improve pedestrian detection accuracy and avoid the disadvantage of original histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), differential template, overlap ratio and normalization method and so on are improved when HOG features are extracted, then more gradient information are extracted and feature description operators can be obtained which describe human detail features better in lager image regions or detection windows. Considering speed, we select support vector machine (SVM) using linear function kernel as a classifier. Multi-scale detection technique and non maxima suppression method are employed for precisely locating the pedestrians in the image. Experiments show that the human detection system improves detection accuracy and still maintains a relatively satisfactory speed.