Recently, the bag-of-words (BOW) based image representation is getting popular in object categorization. However, there is no available visual vocabulary and it has to be learned. ...
Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Hanqing Lu, So...
Salient points are locations in an image where there is a significant variation with respect to a chosen image feature. Since the set of salient points in an image capture import...
Hui Zhang, Rouhollah Rahmani, Sharath R. Cholleti,...
Statistical methods, such as independent component analysis, have been successful in learning local low-level features from natural image data. Here we extend these methods for le...
In this work we introduce a novel approach to object categorization that incorporates two types of context ? cooccurrence and relative location ? with local appearancebased featur...
Carolina Galleguillos, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Be...
Abstract. This contribution proposes a compositional approach to visual object categorization of scenes. Compositions are learned from the Caltech 101 database1 intermediate abstra...