UNITY IN DIVERSITY: DISCOVERING TOPICS FROM WORDS - Information Theoretic Co-clustering for Visual Categorization

Ashish Gupta, Richard Bowden

2012

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to learning a codebook for visual categorization, that resolves the key issue of intra-category appearance variation found in complex real world datasets. The codebook of visual-topics (semantically equivalent descriptors) is made by grouping visual-words (syntactically equivalent descriptors) that are scattered in feature space. We analyze the joint distribution of images and visual-words using information theoretic co-clustering to discover visual-topics. Our approach is compared with the standard ‘Bagof-Words’ approach. The statistically significant performance improvement in all the datasets utilized (Pascal VOC 2006; VOC 2007; VOC 2010; Scene-15) establishes the efficacy of our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gupta A. and Bowden R. (2012). UNITY IN DIVERSITY: DISCOVERING TOPICS FROM WORDS - Information Theoretic Co-clustering for Visual Categorization . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 628-633. DOI: 10.5220/0003861206280633

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Ashish Gupta and Richard Bowden},
title={UNITY IN DIVERSITY: DISCOVERING TOPICS FROM WORDS - Information Theoretic Co-clustering for Visual Categorization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={628-633},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003861206280633},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - UNITY IN DIVERSITY: DISCOVERING TOPICS FROM WORDS - Information Theoretic Co-clustering for Visual Categorization
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Gupta A.
AU - Bowden R.
PY - 2012
SP - 628
EP - 633
DO - 10.5220/0003861206280633