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Contextual Exemplar Classifier-Based Image Representation for Classification
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Title: Contextual Exemplar Classifier-Based Image Representation for Classification

 Authors: Zhang, CJ; Huang, QM; Tian, Q

 Author Full Names: Zhang, Chunjie; Huang, Qingming; Tian, Qi

 Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, 27 (8):1691-1699; 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2527380 AUG 2017

 Language: English

 Abstract: The use of local features for image representation has become popular in recent years. Local features are often used in the bag-of-visual-words scheme. Although proven effective, this method still has two drawbacks. First, local regions from which local features are extracted are not discriminative enough for visual tasks. Hence, the combination of local features is necessary. Second, the semantic gap between visual features and human perception also hinders the performance. To address these two problems, in this paper, we propose a novel contextual exemplar classifier-based method for image representation and apply it for classification tasks. Each exemplar classifier is trained to separate one training image from the other images of different classes. We partition each image into a number of regions and use the responses of these exemplar classifiers as the image region's representation. The contextual relationship is then modeled using mixture Dirichlet distributions. A bilayer model is used to predict image classes with L-2 constraints. Experimental results on the Natural Scene, Caltech-101/256, Flower-17/102, and SUN-397 data sets show that the proposed method is able to outperform the state-of-the-art local feature-based methods for image classification.

 ISSN: 1051-8215

 eISSN: 1558-2205

 IDS Number: FD2YI

 Unique ID: WOS:000407400300007

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