Qualitative part-based models in content-based image retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau;Robert Bergevin

  • Affiliations:
  • École Polytechnique de Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada;Université Laval, Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-ville, H3C 3A7, Ste-Foy, QC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A qualitative, volumetric part-based model is proposed to improve the categorical invariance and viewpoint invariance in content-based image retrieval, and a novel two-step part-categorization method is presented to build it. The method consists first in transforming parts extracted from a segmented contour primitive map and then categorizing the transformed parts using interpretation rules. The first step allows noisy extracted parts to be transformed to the domain of a simple classifier. The second step computes features of the transformed parts for categorization. Content-based image retrieval experiments using real images of complex multi-part objects confirm that a model built from the categorized parts improves both the categorical invariance and the viewpoint invariance. It does so by directly addressing the fundamental limits of low-level models.