What Do Features Tell about Images?

  • Authors:
  • Mads Nielsen;Martin Lillholm

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Scale-Space '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scale-Space and Morphology in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

According to the Marr paradigm [10], visual processing is performed by low-level feature detection followed by higher level task dependent processing. In this case, any two images exhibiting identical features will yield the same result of the visual processing. The set of images exhibiting identical features form an equivalence class: a metameric class [7]. We choose from this class the (in some precise sense) simplest image as a representative. The complexity of this simplest image may in turn be used for analyzing the information content of features. We show examples of images reconstructed from various scale-space features, and show that a low number of simple differential features carries suficient information for reconstructing images close to identical to the human observer. The paper presents direct methods for reconstruction of minimal variance representatives, and variational methods for computation of maximum entropy and maximum a posteriori representatives based on priors for natural images. Finally, conclusions on the information content in blobs and edges are indicated.