An indexing approach for speeding-up image classification

  • Authors:
  • Rahul Jain;Praveen M. Sudha;Sankar K. Pramod;C. V. Jawahar

  • Affiliations:
  • IIIT-Hyderabad, India;IIIT-Hyderabad, India;IIIT-Hyderabad, India;IIIT-Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

One of the most common computer vision tasks is that of recognizing the category of objects present in a given image. Previous work has mostly focused on building accurate classifiers based on carefully selected features. Classification is often carried on individual test images, while most of the practical situations, such as webscale image indexing, demand the simultaneous classification of a large collection of images. This is especially true for real-world datasets, that already contain numerous un-indexed images and videos. In this paper, we work towards developing a computationally efficient approach towards object recognition, that is inspired by retrieval schemes. We perform an offline indexing of the features from the collection, so that the classifier only needs to work on a small subset of the entire feature set. Over a set of 2 Million features extracted from 7000 images, classification against 5 object categories using a standard SVM would require more than 260 hours. Over the same test case, the classification time using our indexing based approach is reduced to less than 13 hours. The compromise on the accuracy is less than 7% for the 20X speedup achieved.