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Object class recognition using unsupervised scale-invariant learning

Object class recognition using unsupervised scale-invariant learning. Rob Fergus Pietro Perona Andrew Zisserman. Oxford University California Institute of Technology. Overview. Task: Recognition of object categories. 3 main issues:. Representation Learning Recognition.

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Object class recognition using unsupervised scale-invariant learning

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  1. Object class recognition using unsupervised scale-invariant learning Rob Fergus Pietro Perona Andrew Zisserman Oxford University California Institute of Technology

  2. Overview Task: Recognition of object categories 3 main issues: Representation Learning Recognition

  3. Some object categories Learn from just examples Difficulties: • Size variation • Background clutter • Occlusion • Intra-class variation

  4. Model: constellation of Parts • Yuille, ‘91 • Brunelli & Poggio, ‘93 • Lades, v.d. Malsburg et al. ‘93 • Cootes, Lanitis, Taylor et al. ‘95 • Amit & Geman, ‘95, ‘99 • Perona et al. ‘95, ‘96, ’98, ‘00 Fischler & Elschlager, 1973

  5. Generative probabilistic model 0.8 0.75 0.9 Foreground model p(A)=PpartsG(Apart|cpart,Vpart) Gaussian shape pdf Gaussian part appearance pdf Gaussian relative scale pdf Log(scale) Prob. of detection Clutter model Clutter pdf Uniform relative scale pdf Gaussian appearance pdf Uniform shape pdf Ppoisson(N|l) Log(scale) p(x)=A-1(uniform) Poission pdf on # detections

  6. Interest Operator • Kadir and Brady's interest operator. • Finds maxima in entropy over scale and location

  7. Representation of appearance c1 c2 Projection onto PCA basis 11x11 patch Normalize c15

  8. Experimental procedure Two series of experiments: Scale variant (using pre-scaled images) Scale invariant • Datasets: • Motorbikes, Faces, Spotted cats, Airplanes, Cars from behind and side • Between 200 and 800 images in size • Training • 50% images • No identifcation of object within image • Testing • 50% images • Simple object present/absent test • ROC equal error rate computed, using background set of images

  9. Motorbikes

  10. Motorbikes

  11. Motorbikes

  12. Motorbikes Equal error rate: 7.5%

  13. Background images

  14. Frontal faces Equal error rate: 4.6%

  15. Equal error rate: 9.8% Airplanes

  16. Scale-invariant Spotted cats Equal error rate: 10.0%

  17. Scale-invariant cars Equal error rate: 9.7%

  18. Robustness of algorithm

  19. ROC equal error rates Pre-scaled data (identical settings): Scale-invariant learning and recognition:

  20. Scale-invariant cars

  21. Discussion Questions • What prior work does this paper build on (besides Kadir’s) ? • What was significant about the training for object vs. background? • What are the main contributions of the Fergus work? • What are the drawbacks to this approach?

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