Multiscale stochastic approach to object detection
Daniel R. Tretter, Charles A. Bouman · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1993
We present a method for object detection based on a novel multiscale stochastic model together with Bayesian estimation techniques. This approach results in a fast, general algorithm which may be easily trained for specific objects. The object model is based on a stochastic tree structure in which each node is an important subassembly of the three dimensional object. Each node or subassembly is modeled using a Gaussian pyramid decomposition. The objective of the algorithm is then to estimate the unknown position of each subassembly, and to determine on the presence of the object. We use a fast multiscale search technique to compute the sequential MAP (SMAP) estimate of the unknown position, scale factor, and 2-D rotation for each subassembly. The search is carried out in a manner similar to a sequential likelihood ratio test, where the process advances in scale rather than time. We use a similar search to estimate the model parameters for a given object from a set of training images.