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Randomized Clustering Forests for Image Classification

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Randomized Clustering Forests for Image Classification
This paper introduces three new contributions to the problems of image classification and image search. First, we propose a new image patch quantization algorithm. Other competitive approaches require a large code book and the sampling of many local regions for accurate image description, at the expense of a prohibitive processing time. We introduce Extremely Randomized Clustering Forests--ensembles of randomly created clustering trees--that are more accurate, much faster to train and test, and more robust to background clutter compared to state-of-the-art methods. Second, we propose an efficient image classification method that combines ERC-Forests and saliency maps very closely with image information sampling. For a given image, a classifier builds a saliency map online, which it uses for classification. We demonstrate speed and accuracy improvement in several state-of-the-art image classification tasks. Finally, we show that our ERC-Forests are used very successfully for learning di...
Frank Moosmann, Eric Nowak, Frédéric
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where PAMI
Authors Frank Moosmann, Eric Nowak, Frédéric Jurie
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