Title
Evaluating information contributions of bottom-up and top-down processes
Abstract
This paper presents a method to quantitatively evaluate information contributions of individual bottom-up and top-down computing processes in object recognition. Our objective is to start a discovery on how to schedule bottom-up and top-down processes. (1) We identify two bottom-up processes and one top-down process in hierarchical models, termed α, β and γ channels respectively ; (2) We formulate the three channels under an unified Bayesian framework; (3) We use a blocking control strategy to isolate the three channels to separately train them and individually measure their information contributions in typical recognition tasks; (4) Based on the evaluated results, we integrate the three channels to detect objects with performance improvements obtained. Our experiments are performed in both low-middle level tasks, such as detecting edges/bars and junctions, and high level tasks, such as detecting human faces and cars, together with a group of human study designed to compare computer and human perception.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICCV.2009.5459386
ICCV
Keywords
DocType
Volume
blocking control strategy,low-middle level tasks,top-down processes,α channel,information contribution evaluation,γ channel,hierarchical models,bottom-up processes,object detection,object recognition,β channel,top down processing,pediatrics,top down,study design,bottom up,feature extraction,testing,human perception
Conference
2009
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
1550-5499 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-4419-9
978-1-4244-4419-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiong Yang1151.54
Tianfu Wu233126.72
Song-Chun Zhu36580741.75