Conditional Feature Sensitivity: A Unifying View on Active Recognition and Feature Selection

  • Authors:
  • Xiang Sean Zhou;Dorin Comaniciu;Arun Krishnan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The objective of active recognition is to iteratively collectthe next "best" measurements (e.g., camera angles orviewpoints), to maximally reduce ambiguities in recognition.However, existing work largely overlooked featureinteraction issues. Feature selection, on the other hand,focuses on the selection of a subset of measurements for agiven classification task, but is not context sensitive (i.e.,the decision does not depend on the current input). Thispaper proposes a unified perspective through conditionalfeature sensitivity analysis, taking into account both currentcontext and feature interactions. Based on differentrepresentations of the contextual uncertainties, we presentthree treatment models and exploit their joint power fordealing with complex feature interactions. Synthetic examplesare used to systematically test the validity of theproposed models. A practical application in medical domainis illustrated using an echocardiography databasewith more than 2000 video segments with both subjective(from experts) and objective validations.