SCENE CATEGORIZATION USING LOW-LEVEL VISUAL FEATURES

Ioannis Pratikakis, Basilios Gatos, Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos

2006

Abstract

In this paper, we have built two binary classifiers for indoor/outdoor and city/landscape categories, respectively. The proposed classifiers consist of robust visual feature extraction that feeds a support vector classification. In the case of indoor/outdoor classification, we combine color and texture information using the first three moments of RGB color space components and the low order statistics of the energy wavelet coefficients from a two-level wavelet pyramid. In the case of city/landscape classification, we combine the first three moments of L*a*b color space components and structural information (line segment orientation). Experimental results show that a high classification accuracy is achieved.

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Pratikakis I., Gatos B. and C.A. Thomopoulos S. (2006). SCENE CATEGORIZATION USING LOW-LEVEL VISUAL FEATURES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 155-160. DOI: 10.5220/0001374901550160


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@conference{visapp06,
author={Ioannis Pratikakis and Basilios Gatos and Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos},
title={SCENE CATEGORIZATION USING LOW-LEVEL VISUAL FEATURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={155-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001374901550160},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - SCENE CATEGORIZATION USING LOW-LEVEL VISUAL FEATURES
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Pratikakis I.
AU - Gatos B.
AU - C.A. Thomopoulos S.
PY - 2006
SP - 155
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0001374901550160