Cascaded Classification Models: Combining Models for Holistic Scene Understanding

One of the original goals of computer vision was to fully understand a natural scene. This requires solving several sub-problems simultaneously, including object detection, region labeling, and geometric reasoning. The last few decades have seen great progress in tackling each of these problems in isolation. Only recently have researchers returned to the difficult task of considering them jointly. In this work, we consider learning a set of related models in such that they both solve their own problem and help each other. We develop a framework called Cascaded Classification Models (CCM), where repeated instantiations of these classifiers are coupled by their input/output variables in a cascade that improves performance at each level. Our method requires only a limited "black box" interface with the models, allowing us to use very sophisticated, state-of-the-art classifiers without having to look under the hood. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on a large set o...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Geremy Heitz, Stephen Gould, Ashutosh Saxena, Daphne Koller
• Keywords: Information Technology, Natural Scene, NIPS 2008, Object Detection, Original Goals