LUNCHBUNCH! Grad Student Presentations

A Two-Stage Template Approach to Person Detection in
Thermal Imagery

Mark Keck
OSU Graduate Student
Advisor: James W. Davis

Wednesday, Dec. 1st
11:30am, 480 Dreese Labs
All interested parties are invited.
Pizza lunch will be served.

Abstract:
We present a two-stage template-based method to detect people in widely
varying thermal imagery. The approach initially performs a fast screening
procedure using a generalized template to locate potential person
locations. Next an AdaBoosted ensemble classifier using automatically
tuned filters is employed to test the hypothesized person locations. We
demonstrate and evaluate the approach using a challenging dataset of
thermal imagery.