An approach for combining multiple descriptors for image classification

Duc Toan Tran; Bart Jansen; Rudi Deklerck; Olivier Debeir

doi:10.1117/12.2181017

14 February 2015 An approach for combining multiple descriptors for image classification

Duc Toan Tran, Bart Jansen, Rudi Deklerck, Olivier Debeir

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Proceedings Volume 9445, Seventh International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2014); 94450Y (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2181017
Event: Seventh International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2014), 2014, Milan, Italy

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Recently, efficient image descriptors have shown promise for image classification tasks. Moreover, methods based on the combination of multiple image features provide better performance compared to methods based on a single feature. This work presents a simple and efficient approach for combining multiple image descriptors. We first employ a Naive-Bayes Nearest-Neighbor scheme to evaluate four widely used descriptors. For all features, “Image-to-Class” distances are directly computed without descriptor quantization. Since distances measured by different metrics can be of different nature and they may not be on the same numerical scale, a normalization step is essential to transform these distances into a common domain prior to combining them. Our experiments conducted on a challenging database indicate that z-score normalization followed by a simple sum of distances fusion technique can significantly improve the performance compared to applications in which individual features are used. It was also observed that our experimental results on the Caltech 101 dataset outperform other previous results.

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Duc Toan Tran, Bart Jansen, Rudi Deklerck, and Olivier Debeir "An approach for combining multiple descriptors for image classification", Proc. SPIE 9445, Seventh International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2014), 94450Y (14 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2181017

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Image classification

Databases

Distance measurement

Image analysis

Quantization

Image compression

Object recognition

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