Perceptually motivated shape context which uses shape interiors

  • Authors:
  • Vittal Premachandran;Ramakrishna Kakarala

  • Affiliations:
  • 50, Nanyang Avenue, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798;50, Nanyang Avenue, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we identify some of the limitations of current-day shape-matching techniques. We provide examples of how contour-based shape-matching techniques cannot provide a good match for certain visually similar shapes. To overcome this limitation, we propose a perceptually motivated variant of the well-known shape context descriptor. We identify that the interior properties of the shape play an important role in object recognition and develop a descriptor that captures these interior properties. We show that our method can easily be augmented with any other shape-matching algorithm. We also show from our experiments that the use of our descriptor can significantly improve the retrieval rates.