用於行人檢測(Pedestrian Detection)的hog特徵於2005年被N. Dalal和B. Triggs提出來。他們提出的算法可用於計算96×160圖像的HOG特徵提取。使用的數據集爲INRIA Person Dataset。
下面的python代碼片段用來爲計算一張圖片的HOG特徵:
import numpy as np
from scipy import signal
import scipy.misc
def s_x(img):
kernel = np.array([[-1, 0, 1]])
imgx = signal.convolve2d(img, kernel, boundary='symm', mode='same')
return imgx
def s_y(img):
kernel = np.array([[-1, 0, 1]]).T
imgy = signal.convolve2d(img, kernel, boundary='symm', mode='same')
return imgy
def grad(img):
imgx = s_x(img)
imgy = s_y(img)
s = np.sqrt(imgx**2 + imgy**2)
theta = np.arctan2(imgx, imgy) #imgy, imgx)
theta[theta<0] = np.pi + theta[theta<0]
return (s, theta)