The feature and spatial covariant kernel: adding implicit spatial constraints to histogram

  • Authors:
  • Xiaobing Liu;Dong Wang;Jianmin Li;Bo Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we are motivated to augment the holistic histogram representation with implicit spatial constrains. To be more concrete, we aim at finding a good match function for the problem of object/scene categorization which considers the spatial constraints against heavy clutter and occlusion. Our solution is a partial match kernel under the histogram representation which varies simultaneously at both the feature and spatial resolutions, named as the Feature and Spatial Covariant (FESCO) kernel. Both the FESCO kernel and its late fusion alternative achieve better match accuracy than Spatial Pyramid Match [13] and Pyramid Match [11]. We also apply the keypoint features to video indexing. And on a large scale TRECVID data sets of over 300 hours videos, to our best knowledge, this approach achieves the state-of-the-art result for a single feature.