Learning natural scene categories by selective multi-scale feature extraction

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 927-939

  Perina, Alessandro ^a   Cristani, Marco ^b   Murino, Vittorio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generative modeling; Image classification; Image representation

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; CO-OCCURRENCE; CODE-WORDS; DISCRETE SETS; FOREGROUND OBJECTS; GENERATIVE MODEL; GENERATIVE MODELING; IMAGE COLLECTIONS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LOCAL COLOR; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; MULTISCALES; NATURAL SCENES; REPRESENTATION SCHEMES; SCENE CATEGORIZATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77949275100     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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