A Comparative Study of Local Descriptors for Object Category Recognition: SIFT vs HMAX

  • Authors:
  • Plinio Moreno;Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez;Alexandre Bernardino;José Santos-Victor;Nicolás Pérez Blanca

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Superior Técnico & Instituto de Sistemas e Robóóótica, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;Dpt. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, ETSI Informática y Telecomunicación, Granada, 18071, Spain;Instituto Superior Técnico & Instituto de Sistemas e Robóóótica, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;Instituto Superior Técnico & Instituto de Sistemas e Robóóótica, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;Dpt. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, ETSI Informática y Telecomunicación, Granada, 18071, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IbPRIA '07 Proceedings of the 3rd Iberian conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we evaluate the performance of the two most successful state-of-the-art descriptors, applied to the task of visual object detection and localization in images. In the first experiment we use these descriptors, combined with binary classifiers, to test the presence/absence of object in a target image. In the second experiment, we try to locate faces in images, by using a structural model. The results show that HMAX performs slightly better than SIFT in these tasks.