Title
Natural scene image modeling using color and texture visterms
Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach for visual scene representation, combining the use of quantized color and texture local invariant features (referred to here as visterms) computed over interest point regions. In particular we investigate the different ways to fuse together local information from texture and color in order to provide a better visterm representation. We develop and test our methods on the task of image classification using a 6-class natural scene database. We perform classification based on the bag-of-visterms (BOV) representation (histogram of quantized local descriptors), extracted from both texture and color features. We investigate two different fusion approaches at the feature level: fusing local descriptors together and creating one representation of joint texture-color visterms, or concatenating the histogram representation of both color and texture, obtained independently from each local feature. On our classification task we show that the appropriate use of color improves the results w.r.t. a texture only representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11788034_42
CIVR
Keywords
Field
DocType
quantized local descriptors,color feature,texture visterms,local information,texture local invariant feature,visterm representation,quantized color,visual scene representation,histogram representation,natural scene image modeling,local feature,fusing local descriptors
Computer vision,Histogram,Color histogram,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Support vector machine,Image retrieval,Image processing,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Color image
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4071
0302-9743
3-540-36018-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.19
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pedro Quelhas126121.51
Jean-marc Odobez21641110.52