Evaluating bag-of-visual-words representations in scene classification

• Main Authors: YANG, Jun, JIANG, Yu-Gang, HAUPTMANN, Alexander G., NGO, Chong-wah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Bag-of-visual-words; Keypoint; Local interest point; Scene classification; Data Storage Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6478; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7481/viewcontent/1290082.1290111.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Based on keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a “bag of visual words” and this representation has been used in scene classification. The choice of dimension, selection, and weighting of visual words in this representation is crucial to the classification perform...