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Fine-Grained Image Classification via Low-Rank Sparse Coding with General and Class-Specific Codebooks
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Title: Fine-Grained Image Classification via Low-Rank Sparse Coding with General and Class-Specific Codebooks

 Authors: Zhang, CJ; Liang, C; Li, L; Liu, J; Huang, QM; Tian, Q

 Author Full Names: Zhang, Chunjie; Liang, Chao; Li, Liang; Liu, Jing; Huang, Qingming; Tian, Qi

 Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 28 (7):1550-1559; 10.1109/TNNLS.2016.2545112 JUL 2017

 Language: English

 Abstract: This paper tries to separate fine-grained images by jointly learning the encoding parameters and codebooks through low-rank sparse coding (LRSC) with general and class-specific codebook generation. Instead of treating each local feature independently, we encode the local features within a spatial region jointly by LRSC. This ensures that the spatially nearby local features with similar visual characters are encoded by correlated parameters. In this way, we can make the encoded parameters more consistent for fine-grained image representation. Besides, we also learn a general codebook and a number of class-specific codebooks in combination with the encoding scheme. Since images of fine-grained classes are visually similar, the difference is relatively small between the general codebook and each class-specific codebook. We impose sparsity constraints to model this relationship. Moreover, the incoherences with different codebooks and class-specific codebooks are jointly considered. We evaluate the proposed method on several public image data sets. The experimental results show that by learning general and classspecific codebooks with the joint encoding of local features, we are able to model the differences among different fine-grained classes than many other fine-grained image classification methods.

 ISSN: 2162-237X

 eISSN: 2162-2388

 IDS Number: EY5VI

 Unique ID: WOS:000404048300006

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