Training custom SVM to use with HOGDescriptor in OpenCV

Question

I\'m trying to train my own detector for use with OpenCV::HOGDescriptor but I\'m having trouble making the existing HOGDescriptor work with my newly trained SVM.

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Answer 1

I wrote a child class of CvSVM to extract primal form after a linear svm is trained. Positive samples are labeled 1 and negative samples are labeled -1. It is strange that I have to put negative sign in front of alphas and leaving the sign of rho unchanged in order to get correct results from HogDescriptor.

LinearSVM.h

#ifndef LINEAR_SVM_H_
#define LINEAR_SVM_H_
#include 
#include 

class LinearSVM: public CvSVM {
public:
  void getSupportVector(std::vector& support_vector) const;
};  

#endif /* LINEAR_SVM_H_ */

LinearSVM.cc

#include "linear_svm.h"    
void LinearSVM::getSupportVector(std::vector& support_vector) const {

    int sv_count = get_support_vector_count();
    const CvSVMDecisionFunc* df = decision_func;
    const double* alphas = df[0].alpha;
    double rho = df[0].rho;
    int var_count = get_var_count();
    support_vector.resize(var_count, 0);
    for (unsigned int r = 0; r < (unsigned)sv_count; r++) {
      float myalpha = alphas[r];
      const float* v = get_support_vector(r);
      for (int j = 0; j < var_count; j++,v++) {
        support_vector[j] += (-myalpha) * (*v);
      }
    }
    support_vector.push_back(rho);
}