Technische Universitat Darmstadt

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Nikodem Majer

Gabriel Othmezouri

Ichiro Sakata

Bernt Schiele

Konrad Schindler

Stefan Walk

An image processor () has a window selector for choosing a detection window within the image, and a self similarity computation part () for determining self-similarity information for a group of the pixels in any part of the detection window, to represent an amount of self-similarity of that group to other groups in any other part of the detector window, and for repeating the determination for groups in all parts of the detection window, to generate a global self similarity descriptor for the detection window. A classifier () is used for classifying whether an object is present based on the global self-similarity descriptor. By using global self-similarity rather than local similarities more information is captured which can lead to better classification. In particular, it helps enable recognition of more distant self-similarities inherent in the object, and self-similarities present at any scale.

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Nikodem Majer