A 2D histogram representation of images for pooling

Xinnan Yu; Yu-Jin Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.872257

7 February 2011 A 2D histogram representation of images for pooling

Xinnan Yu, Yu-Jin Zhang

Proceedings Volume 7877, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV; 787706 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872257
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

Designing a suitable image representation is one of the most fundamental issues of computer vision. There are three steps in the popular Bag of Words based image representation: feature extraction, coding and pooling. In the final step, current methods make an M x K encoded feature matrix degraded to a K-dimensional vector (histogram), where M is the number of features, and K is the size of the codebook: information is lost dramatically here. In this paper, a novel pooling method, based on 2-D histogram representation, is proposed to retain more information from the encoded image features. This pooling method can be easily incorporated into state-of- the-art computer vision system frameworks. Experiments show that our approach improves current pooling methods, and can achieve satisfactory performance of image classification and image reranking even when using a small codebook and costless linear SVM.

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Xinnan Yu and Yu-Jin Zhang "A 2D histogram representation of images for pooling", Proc. SPIE 7877, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV, 787706 (7 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872257

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