Title
Exploiting spatial overlap to efficiently compute appearance distances between image windows.
Abstract
We present a computationally efficient technique to compute the distance of high-dimensional appearance descriptor vectors between image windows. The method exploits the relation between appearance distance and spatial overlap. We derive an upper bound on appearance distance given the spatial overlap of two windows in an image, and use it to bound the distances of many pairs between two images. We propose algorithms that build on these basic operations to efficiently solve tasks relevant to many computer vision applications, such as finding all pairs of windows between two images with distance smaller than a threshold, or finding the single pair with the smallest distance. In experiments on the PASCAL VOC 07 dataset, our algorithms accurately solve these problems while greatly reducing the number of appearance distances computed, and achieve larger speedups than approximate nearest neighbour algorithms based on trees [18]and on hashing [21]. For example, our algorithm finds the most similar pair of windows between two images while computing only 1% of all distances on average.
Year
Venue
Field
2011
NIPS
Nearest neighbour,Upper and lower bounds,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Hash function,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
11
1.39
References 
Authors
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bogdan Alexe1170678.66
Petrescu, Viviana2111.39
Vittorio Ferrari35369284.83