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Geometric min-Hashing: Finding a (Thick) Needle in a Haystack

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Geometric min-Hashing: Finding a (Thick) Needle in a Haystack
We propose a novel hashing scheme for image retrieval, clustering and automatic object discovery. Unlike commonly used bag-of-words approaches, the spatial extent of image features is exploited in our method. The geometric information is used both to construct repeatable hash keys and to increase the discriminability of the description. Each hash key combines visual appearance (visual words) with semi-local geometric information. Compared with the state-of-the-art min-Hash, the proposed method has both higher recall (probability of collision for hashes on the same object) and lower false positive rates (random collisions). The advantages of Geometric min-Hashing approach are most pronounced in the presence of viewpoint and scale change, significant occlusion or small physical overlap of the viewing fields. We demonstrate the power of the proposed method on small object discovery in a large unordered collection of images and on a large scale image clustering problem
Ondrej Chum (Czech Technical University), Michal P
Added 05 May 2009
Updated 10 Dec 2009
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where CVPR
Authors Ondrej Chum (Czech Technical University), Michal Perdoch (Czech Technical University), Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University)
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