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These problems slow down learning and can even reduce the performance of the learned model. Current solutions typically exploit dimension reduction techniques. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective feature selection framework for pedestrian detection. Moreover, we introduce occluded pedestrian samples into the training process and combine it with a new feature selection criterion, which enables improved performances for occlusion handling problems. 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