Analytical review and study on object detection techniques in the image

Abstract

Object detection is the most fundamental but challenging issues in the field of computer vision. Object detection identifies the presence of various individual objects in an image. Great success is attained for object detection/recognition problems in the controlled environment, but still, the problem remains unsolved in the uncontrolled places, particularly, when the objects are placed in arbitrary poses in an occluded and cluttered environment. In the last few years, a lots of efforts are made by researchers to resolve this issue, because of its wide range of applications in computer vision tasks, like content-enabled image retrieval, event or activity recognition, scene understanding, and so on. This review provides a detailed survey of 50 research papers presenting the object detection techniques, like machine learning-based techniques, gradient-based techniques, Fast Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Fast R-CNN) detector, and the foreground-based techniques. Here, the machine learning-based approaches are classified into deep learning-based approaches, random forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and so on. Moreover, the challenges faced by the existing techniques are explained in the gaps and issues section. The analysis based on the classification, toolset, datasets utilized, published year, and the performance metrics are discussed. The future dimension of the research is based on the gaps and issues identified from the existing research works.