A Pyramid of Concentric Circular Regions to Improve Rotation Invariance in Bag-of-Words Approach for Object Categorization

Arnaldo Câmara Lara, Roberto Hirata Jr.

2013

Abstract

The bag-of-words (BoW) approach has shown to be effective in image categorization. Spatial pyramids in conjunction to the original BoW approach improve overall performance in the categorization process. This work proposes a new way of partitioning an image in concentric circular regions and calculating histograms of codewords for each circular region. The histogram of the entire image is concatenated forming the image descriptor. This slight and simple modification preserves the performance of the original spatial information and adds robustness to image rotation. The pyramid of concentric circular regions showed to be almost 78% more robust to rotation of images in our tests compared to the traditional rectangular spatial pyramids.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Câmara Lara A. and Hirata Jr. R. (2013). A Pyramid of Concentric Circular Regions to Improve Rotation Invariance in Bag-of-Words Approach for Object Categorization . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1, pages 687-692. DOI: 10.5220/0004298806870692

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp13,
author={Arnaldo Câmara Lara and Roberto Hirata Jr.},
title={A Pyramid of Concentric Circular Regions to Improve Rotation Invariance in Bag-of-Words Approach for Object Categorization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={687-692},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004298806870692},
isbn={978-989-8565-47-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - A Pyramid of Concentric Circular Regions to Improve Rotation Invariance in Bag-of-Words Approach for Object Categorization
SN - 978-989-8565-47-1
AU - Câmara Lara A.
AU - Hirata Jr. R.
PY - 2013
SP - 687
EP - 692
DO - 10.5220/0004298806870692