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Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects
December 2004 (vol. 26 no. 12)
pp. 1537-1552
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Owen Carmichael, Martial Hebert, "Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 1537-1552, December, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.128,
author = {Owen Carmichael and Martial Hebert},
title = {Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
volume = {26},
number = {12},
issn = {0162-8828},
year = {2004},
pages = {1537-1552},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2004.128},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TI - Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects
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SN - 0162-8828
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EPD - 1537-1552
A1 - Owen Carmichael,
A1 - Martial Hebert,
PY - 2004
KW - Object recognition
KW - edge and feature detection
KW - classifier design and evaluation
KW - shape.
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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We present an approach to the recognition of complex-shaped objects in cluttered environments based on edge information. We first use example images of a target object in typical environments to train a classifier cascade that determines whether edge pixels in an image belong to an instance of the desired object or the clutter. Presented with a novel image, we use the cascade to discard clutter edge pixels and group the object edge pixels into overall detections of the object. The features used for the edge pixel classification are localized, sparse edge density operations. Experiments validate the effectiveness of the technique for recognition of a set of complex objects in a variety of cluttered indoor scenes under arbitrary out-of-image-plane rotation. Furthermore, our experiments suggest that the technique is robust to variations between training and testing environments and is efficient at runtime.

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Index Terms:
Object recognition, edge and feature detection, classifier design and evaluation, shape.
Citation:
Owen Carmichael, Martial Hebert, "Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 1537-1552, Dec. 2004, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2004.128
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