Title
CapsNet meets SIFT: A robust framework for distorted target categorization
Abstract
•We realize distorted target recognition by presenting a CapsNetSIFT architecture (cf. Fig. 1). It can simultaneously enable accurate positioning of interest regions and comprehensive learning of discriminative features whilst boasting invariance to visual distortions.•We propose a parallel MD-CapsNet in CapsNetSIFT for boosting representability. The customized structure, hyperparameter setting, and dynamic routing agreement have been demonstrated.•We propose a VM-SIFT in CapsNetSIFT to establish correspondence among capsule encoding vectors of standard images and distorted ones. This may represent the first attempt to realize feature matching of capsule vectors.•We conduct quantitative experiments of distorted target categorization on four benchmarks (CUB-200-2011, Stanford Dogs, Stanford Cars, and our hand-crafted rice growth dataset). Evaluation results reveal our advantage over state-of-the-arts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.087
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Capsule network (CapsNet),Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT),Distorted target categorization,Feature matching
Journal
464
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhongqi Lin133.12
Wanlin Gao267.58
Jingdun Jia332.44
Feng Huang411.38