Title
Directed Markov Stationary Features for visual classification
Abstract
We investigate how to effectively incorporate spatial structure information into histogram features for boosting visual classification performance motivated by recently proposed Markov stationary features (MSF). First, we show that due to the symmetric property of the image occurrence modeling procedure, the stationary distribution derived from the normalized co-occurrence matrix has a trivial informative solution which only approximates the original histogram representation, i.e., does not encode proper spatial structure information. To eliminate this ambiguity, we propose in this work the so called directed Markov stationary features (DMSF) to encode spatial information into histogram features, and the asymmetric essence of the co-occurrence matrices in DMSF avoids the trivial informative solutions in MSF. Extensive experiments on face recognition show the significant performance improvement brought by our proposed DMSF.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959711
ICASSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual classification,markov stationary features,original histogram representation,face recognition,encode proper spatial structure,spatial information,directed markov stationary features,image occurrence modeling,trivial informative solution,histogram feature,feature extraction,image classification,proposed dmsf,normalized cooccurrence matrix,markov processes,stationary distribution,co-occurrence matrix,spatial structure information,coherence,image retrieval,encoding,histograms,face,databases,co occurrence matrix,data mining,computer vision,pixel,image analysis,symmetric matrices,boosting
Facial recognition system,Histogram,Markov process,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Markov chain,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Stationary distribution,Boosting (machine learning),Contextual image classification
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-2354-5
978-1-4244-2354-5
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bingbing Ni1142182.90
Shuicheng Yan276725.71
Ashraf A. Kassim3116497.26