Robust Histogram Construction from Color Invariants

An effective object recognition scheme is to represent and match images on the basis of histograms derived from photometric color invariants. A drawback, however, is that certain color invariant values become very unstable in the presence of sensor noise. To suppress the effect of noise for unstable color invariant values, in this paper, histograms are computed by variable kernel density estimators. To apply variable kernel density estimation in a principled way, models are proposed for the propagation of sensor noise through color invariant variables. As a result, the associated uncertainty is obtained for each color invariant value. The associated uncertainty is used to derive the parameterization of the variable kernel for the purpose of robust histogram construction. It is empirically verified that the proposed density estimator compares favorably to traditional histogram schemes for the purpose of object recognition.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ICCV
• Authors: Theo Gevers
• Keywords: Color Invariant Values, Color Invariant Variables, Computer Vision, ICCV 2001, Kernel Density Estimation, Kernel Density Estimators, Variable Kernel Density