Title
Geodesic invariant feature: a local descriptor in depth.
Abstract
Different from the photometric images, depth images resolve the distance ambiguity of the scene, while the properties, such as weak texture, high noise, and low resolution, may limit the representation ability of the well-developed descriptors, which are elaborately designed for the photometric images. In this paper, a novel depth descriptor, geodesic invariant feature (GIF), is presented for representing the parts of the articulate objects in depth images. GIF is a multilevel feature representation framework, which is proposed based on the nature of depth images. Low-level, geodesic gradient is introduced to obtain the invariance to the articulate motion, such as scale and rotation variation. Midlevel, superpixel clustering is applied to reduce depth image redundancy, resulting in faster processing speed and better robustness to noise. High-level, deep network is used to exploit the nonlinearity of the data, which further improves the classification accuracy. The proposed descriptor is capable of encoding the local structures in the depth data effectively and efficiently. Comparisons with the state-of-the-art methods reveal the superiority of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TIP.2014.2378019
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
differential geometry,image representation,superpixel,pattern clustering,image coding,motion articulation,geodesic invariant feature,multilevel feature representation framework,image local structure encoding,invariance,image resolution,body parts recognition,image denoising,pose recognition,gif depth descriptor,feature extraction,image classification,deep learning,data nonlinearity,gradient methods,redundancy,high-level deep network,depth image redundancy reduction,photometric image classification,scene distance ambiguity resolving,depth image,superpixel clustering,image motion analysis,low-level geodesic gradient,noise,sensors,image recognition,robustness
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Feature detection (computer vision),Feature (computer vision),Image processing,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Image restoration,Cluster analysis,Image resolution,Geodesic,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
1
1941-0042
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
55
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yazhou Liu110312.04
Pongsak Lasang2165.29
Mel Siegel328280.67
Quansen Sun4122283.09