Misclassification tolerable learning for robust pedestrian orientation classification
Yasutomo Kawanishi, Daisuke Deguchi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase, Hironobu Fujiyoshi · 2016
In this paper, we propose a multiclass classifier training method which reduces “fatal” misclassifications by cost-relaxation of “tolerable” misclassifications in one-against-all classifiers training, named misclassification tolerable learning. In a binary classifier in the one-against-all classifiers, we introduce a new class group “conceptually similar classes,” whose class labels are similar to the positive class. In the case of pedestrian orientation classification, the conceptually similar classes are defined as neighboring orientations to the positive orientation. We consider the misclassification of the conceptually similar classes to the positive class as tolerable misclassification. By relaxing the cost of the tolerable misclassifications, our proposed classification method reduces fatal misclassifications of non-similar classes. We evaluated the cost-relaxation effectiveness on several public datasets and confirmed that the proposed method outperforms the normal SVM on all of the datasets in the soft criterion by achieving 78.63% recognition rate on PDC Dataset.