Finding Objects in Large Collections of Images

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Finding Objects in Large Collections of Images

Users want things, not stuff

Standard object recognition won’t work

Need to go beyond traditional methods

Image segmentation and grouping

Factors that lead to grouping

Computational grouping is hard

Blobworld: a new way to retrieve images

Represent images based on regions

Polarity and scale selection

Color features for grouping

Texture features for grouping

Grouping: Expectation-Maximization

Use EM to group image regions

Describe regions by color, texture, shape

Querying: let user see the representation

Use Blobworld to classify images

Prototypical blobs for classification

Learn rules for combining blobs

In Conclusion...

Author: ViVE Laboratory

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