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Please help: Human Contour Recognition


zgsc - Posted on 15 November 2011

Hello, I'm a developer new to the computer vision world. I'm assigned a task to separate the human contour from pictures provided by users. Can you please give a pointer where I should start looking? Is Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor the right technology to use? Thank you very much!

For a task similar to this I used Histogram of Gradients(HOG). It works even if you start with a contour (although the first step in HOG is the application of a gradient filter)

If you have images that are not in a clutter, you might even be able to use some sort of shape descriptor (Eg - shape number) Use an SVM or Adaboost as classifier.