A Sample Pre-mapping Method Enhancing Boosting for Object Detection

We propose a novel method to improve the training efficiency and accuracy of boosted classifiers for object detection. The key step of the proposed method is a sample pre-mapping on original space by referring to the selected `reference sample' before feeding into weak classifiers. The reference sample corresponds to an approximation of the optimal separating hyper-plane in an implicit high dimensional space, so that the resulting classifier could achieve the performance similar to kernel method, while spending the computation cost of linear classifier in both training and detection. We employ two different non-linear mappings to verify the proposed method under boosting framework. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves performance comparable with the common used methods on public datasets in both pedestrian detection and car detection.