Title
Empirical Exploration of Extreme SVM-RBF Parameter Values for Visual Object Classification
Abstract
This paper presents a preliminary exploration showing the surprising effect of extreme parameter values used by Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers for identifying objects in images. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel used with SVM classifiers is considered to be a state-of-the-art approach in visual object classification. Standard tuning approaches apply a relative narrow window of values when determining the main parameters for kernel size. We evaluated the effect of setting an extremely small kernel size and discovered that, contrary to expectations, in the context of visual object classification for some object and feature combinations these small kernels can demonstrate good classification performance. The evaluation is based on experiments on the TRECVid 2013 Semantic INdexing (SIN) training dataset and provides initial indications that can be used to better understand the optimisation of RBF kernel parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-04117-9_28
MMM (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,visual object classification,extreme parameter values,svm,rbf,artificial intelligence,machine learning
Kernel (linear algebra),Computer vision,Digital video,Radial basis function,Radial basis function kernel,Pattern recognition,Computer science,TRECVID,Support vector machine,Search engine indexing,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rami Albatal1408.99
Little Suzanne216825.68