We report a VLSI implementation object-recognition coprocessor exploiting both histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) and Haar-like descriptors with a cell-based parallel sliding-window recognition mechanism. The feature extraction circuitry for HOG and Haar-like descriptors are implemented by a pixel-based pipelined architecture, which synchronizes to the pixel frequency from the image sensor. After extracting each cell feature vector, a cell-based sliding window scheme enables parallelized recognition for all windows, which contain this cell. The nearest neighbor search (NNS) classifier is respectively applied to the HOG and Haar-like feature space. The complementary aspects of the two feature domains enable a hardware-friendly implementation of the binary classification for pedestrian detection with improved accuracy.
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