Efficient Object Pixel-Level Categorization Using Bag of Features

  • Authors:
  • David Aldavert;Arnau Ramisa;Ricardo Toledo;Ramon Lopez De Mantaras

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Vision Center (CVC), Dept. Ciències de la Computació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain 08193;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain 08193;Computer Vision Center (CVC), Dept. Ciències de la Computació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain 08193;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain 08193

  • Venue:
  • ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we present a pixel-level object categorization method suitable to be applied under real-time constraints. Since pixels are categorized using a bag of features scheme, the major bottleneck of such an approach would be the feature pooling in local histograms of visual words. Therefore, we propose to bypass this time-consuming step and directly obtain the score from a linear Support Vector Machine classifier. This is achieved by creating an integral image of the components of the SVM which can readily obtain the classification score for any image sub-window with only 10 additions and 2 products, regardless of its size. Besides, we evaluated the performance of two efficient feature quantization methods: the Hierarchical K-Means and the Extremely Randomized Forest. All experiments have been done in the Graz02 database, showing comparable, or even better results to related work with a lower computational cost.