Title
An evaluation of convolutional neural networks on material recognition
Abstract
Material recognition from a single image is a challenging problem in the computer vision field due to the lack of reliable and discriminative features. Previous approaches employ off-the-shelf features such as SIFT descriptors or filter bank response to build material recognition systems. The recent success of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in object recognition motivated us to evaluate their performance in material recognition tasks. In this paper, we tested the generality of several CNN architectures, including VGGNet [31], GoogLeNet [32], Inception V3 [33] and ResNet [10], on two commonly used material datasets: Flickr Material Database (FMD) and Materials IN Context database (MINC). The results show that the best performing CNN architecture, i.e., Inception V3, achieves at least 5% boost on FMD compared with the other networks and almost reaches human's performance. The results on MINC-2500 also exhibit the state-of-the-art level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/UIC-ATC.2017.8397467
2017 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
material recognition,deep learning,CNN architectures
Scale-invariant feature transform,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Convolution,Computer science,MINC,Filter bank,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model,Distributed computing,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1591-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaowei Shang100.68
ying xu27427.10
Lin Qi3278.68
Amanuel Hirpa Madessa400.68
Junyu Dong59923.43