Making Residual Vector Distribution Uniform for Distinctive Image Representation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 375-384

  Liu, Zhen ^a   Li, Houqiang ^a   Zhou, Wengang ^a   Rui, Ting ^b   Tian, Qi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c One UTSA Circle   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Layer; Hierarchical VLAD; Image Descriptor; Image Representation; Image Search; Local Features

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES;

HIDDEN LAYERS; HIERARCHICAL VLAD; IMAGE DESCRIPTOR; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE SEARCH; LOCAL FEATURE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962121104     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2409693     Document Type: Article

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