A feature compression scheme for large scale image retrieval systems

  • Authors:
  • Umair Mateen Khan;Brendan McCane;Andrew Trotman

  • Affiliations:
  • Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand;Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand;Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many image retrieval and object recognition systems rely on high-dimensional feature representation schemes such as SIFT. Because of this high dimensionality these features suffer from the curse of dimensionality and high memory needs. In this paper we evaluate an approach that reduces the size of a SIFT descriptor from 128 bytes to 128 bits. We test its performance in an image retrieval application and its robustness in the presence of various image transformations. We also introduce and evaluate a simpler approach that requires no training but requires 512 bits per descriptor.