HOGDescriptor::compute parameters
My usecase is simple. Given an image I want to find hog descriptors of a particular window (that is I just want to compute HOG features in a window). It seems that I should use HOGDescriptor::compute. But I am not understanding what are the different parameters:
virtual void cv::HOGDescriptor::compute ( InputArray img,
std::vector< float > & descriptors,
Size winStride = Size(),
Size padding = Size(),
const std::vector< Point > & locations = std::vector< Point >()
)
The parameter locations makes sense which I assume tells it where to find the descriptors. The descriptors returned would I have a dimension as computed by the the parameters specified by HOGDescriptor constructor:
(_winSize,
Size _blockSize,
Size _blockStride,
Size _cellSize,
int _nbins ...)
What I don't understand are the parameters winStride, padding. I understand these parameters are used the way a detection window moves for exhaustive detection. But what are they doing in this function compute. Or it is doing something else?! I do not want to compute descriptors in all possible windows, but in a particular window, so that I can feed the descriptor in my custom svm. Thanks in advance.
maybe you have something with this link try to understand what they do with other variables, but I think you will understand: http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto...
I am interested in knowing
paddingandwinstridein the functioncompute. I do not understand their need in getting descriptor for one single particular window. It has nothing to do with the hog literature in general, it is to do with this very particular function of opencv.I really never understood the parameters in this functions either, but I guess it has to do with some old implementation or something. Anyway, you can easily achieve what you want (descriptors for a particular window) if you just input that particular window as the
imgparameter and leave the other default values (and obviously, you will have your result indescriptors. Just make sure your window has the same size as the window of the HOGDescriptor object (this function does not perfom scaling).