Building global image features for scene recognition

  • Authors:
  • Xianglin Meng;Zhengzhi Wang;Lizhen Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073 Hunan, China;College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073 Hunan, China;College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073 Hunan, China

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple, yet very efficient global image representation for scene recognition. A scene image is represented by a histogram of local transforms, which is an extended version of census transform histogram. The local transforms include local difference sign and magnitude information. Due to strong constraints between neighboring transformed values, global structure information can be captured through the histogram and spatial pyramid representation. Principal component analysis is used to reduce the dimensionality and get a compact feature vector. Experimental results on three widely used datasets demonstrate that the proposed method could achieve competitive performance in terms of speed and accuracy.