Object and Action Classification with Latent Variables
Published in British Machine Vision Conference, 2011
Recommended citation: H. Bilen, V.P. Namboodiri and L. Van Gool (2011). “Object and Action Classification with Latent Variables”, In Jesse Hoey, Stephen McKenna and Emanuele Trucco, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, pages 17.1-17.11. BMVA Press, September 2011 http://vinaypn.github.io/files/bmvc2011.pdf
In this paper we propose a generic framework to incorporate unobserved auxiliary information for classifying objects and actions. This framework allows us to explicitly account for localisation and alignment of representations for generic object and action classes as latent variables. We approach this problem in the discriminative setting as learning a max-margin classifier that infers the class label along with the latent variables. Through this paper we make the following contributions a) We provide a method for incorporating latent variables into object and action classification b) We specifically account for the presence of an explicit class related subregion which can include foreground and/or background. c) We explore a way to learn a better classifier by iterative expansion of the latent parameter space. We demonstrate the performance of our approach by rigorous experimental evaluation on a number of standard object and action recognition datasets.
Awarded: Best Paper Prize
Recommended citation: H. Bilen, V.P. Namboodiri and L. Van Gool (2011). “Object and Action Classification with Latent Variables”, In Jesse Hoey, Stephen McKenna and Emanuele Trucco, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, pages 17.1-17.11. BMVA Press, September 2011