Classification with Global, Local and Shared Features
Published in Joint DAGM (German Association for Pattern Recognition) and OAGM Symposium, 2012
Recommended citation: Bilen H., Namboodiri V.P., Van Gool L.J. (2012) Classification with Global, Local and Shared Features. In: Pinz A., Pock T., Bischof H., Leberl F. (eds) Joint DAGM (German Association for Pattern Recognition) and OAGM Symposium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7476. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 134-143 http://vinaypn.github.io/files/dagm2012.pdf
We present a framework that jointly learns and then uses multiple image windows for improved classification. Apart from using the entire image content as context, class-specific windows are added, as well as windows that target class pairs. The location and extent of the windows are set automatically by handling the window parameters as latent variables. This framework makes the following contributions: a) the addition of localized information through the class-specific windows improves classification, b) windows introduced for the classification of class pairs further improve the results, c) the windows and classification parameters can be effectively learnt using a discriminative max-margin approach with latent variables, and d) the same framework is suited for multiple visual tasks such as classifying objects, scenes and actions. Experiments demonstrate the aforementioned claims.
Recommended citation: Bilen H., Namboodiri V.P., Van Gool L.J. (2012) Classification with Global, Local and Shared Features. In: Pinz A., Pock T., Bischof H., Leberl F. (eds) Joint DAGM (German Association for Pattern Recognition) and OAGM Symposium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7476. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 134-143