Title
Integrating Image Clustering And Codebook Learning
Abstract
Image clustering and visual codebook learning are two fundamental problems in computer vision and they are tightly related. On one hand, a good codebook can generate effective feature representations which largely affect clustering performance. On the other hand, class labels obtained from image clustering can serve as supervised information to guide codebook learning. Traditionally, these two processes are conducted separately and their correlation is generally ignored. In this paper, we propose a Double Layer Gaussian Mixture Model (DLGMM) to simultaneously perform image clustering and codebook learning. In DLGMM, two tasks are seamlessly coupled and can mutually promote each other. Cluster labels and codebook are jointly estimated to achieve the overall best performance. To incorporate the spatial coherence between neighboring visual patches, we propose a Spatially Coherent DLGMM which uses a Markov Random Field to encourage neighboring patches to share the same visual word label. We use variational inference to approximate the posterior of latent variables and learn model parameters. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of two models.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
U-matrix,Pattern recognition,Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm,Inference,Computer science,Markov random field,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Mixture model,Machine learning,Codebook,Visual Word
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.41
References 
Authors
22
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pengtao Xie133922.63
Bo Xing27332471.43