Object Bank




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Li-Jia Li, Hao Su, Yongwhan Lim, Robert Cosgriff, Daniel Goodwin, and Li Fei-Fei

Vision Lab, Stanford University



Figure 1. Overview of Object Bank Representation Extraction

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Object bank representation is a novel image representation for high-level visual tasks, which encodes semantic and spatial information of the objects within an image. In object bank, an image is represented as a collection of scale-invariant responsemaps of a large number of pre-trained generic object detectors. In Figure 1, we show the feature extraction process. Using simple, off-the-shelf classifiers such as linear support vector machines and logistic regression, we show that this high-level image representation can be used effectively for high-level visual tasks such as object and scene image classification, image annotation and image retrieval. The results surpass reported state-of-the-arts performance on a number of standard benchmark datasets.

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The executable takes in an image in any standard image format (e.g., jpg). Using pre-trained object filters (included in the package), it outputs objectbank representation in text format.

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Benchmark

Below are two example benchmark results on MIT-Indoor and UIUC-Event using linaer SVM (OB-SVM) and linear iregression (OB-LR). The extracted object bank features of these two datasets can be downloaded here: MIT-Indoor and UIUC-Event.

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[1] Li-Jia Li*, Hao Su*, Eric P. Xing and Li Fei-Fei. Object Bank: A High-Level Image Representation for Scene Classification and Semantic Feature Sparsification. Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010. (*indicates equal contribution) [PDF]
[2] Li-Jia Li*, Hao Su*, Yongwhan Lim and Li Fei-Fei. Objects as Attributes for Scene Classification. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), 1st International Workshop on Parts and Attributes, 2010. (*indicates equal contribution) [PDF]
[3] A. Oliva and A. Torralba. Modeling the shape of the scene: a holistic representation of the spatial envelope. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 42, 2001.
[4] D. Lowe. Object recognition from local scale-invariant features. Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 1999.
[5] S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid, and J. Ponce. Beyond bags of features: Spatial pyramid matching for recognizing natural scene categories. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
[6] A. Quattoni and A. Torralba. Recognizing Indoor Scenes. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
[7] Li-Jia Li and Li Fei-Fei. What, where and who? Classifying event by scene and object recognition. IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.


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