Fractal dimension of bag-of-visual words

Scene recognition is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. One of the most used scene recognition methods is the bag-of-visual words. Despite the interesting results, this approach does not capture the detail richness of spatial information of the visual words on the image. In thi...

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Published in:Pattern analysis and applications : PAA 2019-02, Vol.22 (1), p.89-98
Main Authors: Ribas, Lucas Correia, Gonçalves, Diogo Nunes, de Andrade Silva, Jonathan, Antônio de Castro Jr, Amaury, Bruno, Odemir Martinez, Gonçalves, Wesley Nunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Science
Computer vision
Fractals
Pattern Recognition
Recognition
Spatial data
Theoretical Advances
Visual discrimination
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Summary:Scene recognition is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. One of the most used scene recognition methods is the bag-of-visual words. Despite the interesting results, this approach does not capture the detail richness of spatial information of the visual words on the image. In this paper, we propose a new method to describe the visual words using the fractal dimension. Our method estimates the fractal dimension of each visual word on image through box-counting method. The fractal dimension is capable of providing complex and spatial information of the visual words in a simple and efficient way. We validate our method on three well-known scene and object datasets, and the experimental results reveal that our method leads to highly discriminative features of the visual words. In addition, the proposed method has achieved competitive results compared to popular methods in scene classification.
ISSN:1433-7541
1433-755X
DOI:10.1007/s10044-018-0736-x