Title
Informative patches sampling for image classification by utilizing bottom-up and top-down information
Abstract
In image classification based on bag of visual words framework, image patches used for creating image representations affect the classification performance significantly. However, currently, patches are sampled mainly based on processing low-level image information or just extracted regularly or randomly. These methods are not effective, because patches extracted through these approaches are not necessarily discriminative for image categorization. In this paper, we propose to utilize both bottom-up information through processing low-level image information and top-down information through exploring statistical properties of training image grids to extract image patches. In the proposed work, an input image is divided into regular grids, each of which is evaluated based on its bottom-up information and/or top-down information. Subsequently, every grid is assigned a saliency value based on its evaluation result, so that a saliency map can be created for the image. Finally, patch sampling from the input image is performed on the basis of the obtained saliency map. Furthermore, we propose a method to fuse these two kinds of information. The proposed methods are evaluated on both object categories and scene categories. Experiment results demonstrate their effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s00138-012-0473-x
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image classification,Patch sampling,Bottom-up,Top-down,Saliency
Journal
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0932-8092
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuang Bai1458.01
Tetsuya Matsumoto24912.05
Yoshinori Takeuchi325048.18
Hiroaki Kudo43611.31
N. Ohnishi546996.96