Automatic selection of visual features and classifiers

Alejandro Jaimes; Shih-Fu Chang

doi:10.1117/12.373566

23 December 1999 Automatic selection of visual features and classifiers

Alejandro Jaimes, Shih-Fu Chang

Proceedings Volume 3972, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373566
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a dynamic approach to feature and classifier selection. In our approach, based on performance, visual features and classifiers are selected automatically. In earlier work, we presented the Visual Apprentice, in which users can define visual object models via a multiple- level object definition hierarchy. Visual Object Detectors are learned, using various learning algorithms - as the user provides examples from images or video, visual features are extracted and multiple classifiers are learned for each node of the hierarchy. In this paper, features and classifiers are selected automatically at each node, depending on their performance over the training set introduce the concept of Recurrent Visual Semantics and show how it can be used to identify domains in which performance-based learning techniques such as the one presented can be applied. We then show experimental results in detecting Baseball video shots, images that contain handshakes,and images that contain skies. These result demonstrate the importance, feasibility, and usefulness of dynamic feature/classifier selection for classification of visual information, and the performance benefits of using multiple learning algorithms to build classifiers. Based on our experiments, we also discuss some of the issues that arise when applying learning techniques in real-world content-based applications.

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Alejandro Jaimes and Shih-Fu Chang "Automatic selection of visual features and classifiers", Proc. SPIE 3972, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000, (23 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373566

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