DETECTION THRESHOLDING USING MUTUAL INFORMATION

Ciarán Ó Conaire, Noel O’Connor, Eddie Cooke, Alan Smeaton

2006

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel non-parametric thresholding method that we term Mutual-Information Thresholding. In our approach, we choose the two detection thresholds for two input signals such that the mutual information between the thresholded signals is maximised. Two efficient algorithms implementing our idea are presented: one using dynamic programming to fully explore the quantised search space and the other method using the Simplex algorithm to perform gradient ascent to significantly speed up the search, under the assumption of surface convexity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in foreground detection (using multi-modal data) and as a component in a person detection system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ó Conaire C., O’Connor N., Cooke E. and Smeaton A. (2006). DETECTION THRESHOLDING USING MUTUAL INFORMATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 408-415. DOI: 10.5220/0001368404080415

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Ciarán Ó Conaire and Noel O’Connor and Eddie Cooke and Alan Smeaton},
title={DETECTION THRESHOLDING USING MUTUAL INFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={408-415},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001368404080415},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - DETECTION THRESHOLDING USING MUTUAL INFORMATION
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Ó Conaire C.
AU - O’Connor N.
AU - Cooke E.
AU - Smeaton A.
PY - 2006
SP - 408
EP - 415
DO - 10.5220/0001368404080415