Feature Transform Optimization for Pedestrian Classification

In this paper, we propose a FTOP (Feature Transform Optimization Problem) and its solution. We propose a method to optimize both parameters and processing order of feature transform simultaneously, not limited to convolution and pooling included in CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). In order to realize the optimization, we formulate it as a combinatorial optimization problem and solve it by meta-heuristics. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by applying the proposed method to pedestrian classification based on a benchmark data set.