Abstract

Scene classification is a major open challenge in machine vision. Most solutions proposed so far such as those based on color histograms and local texture statistics cannot capture a scene's global configuration, which is critical in perceptual judgments of scene similarity. We present a novel approach, "configural recognition", for encoding scene class structure. The approach's main feature is its use of qualitative spatial and photometric relationships within and across regions in low resolution images. The emphasis on qualitative measures leads to enhanced generalization abilities and the use of low-resolution images renders the scheme computationally efficient. We present results on a large database of natural scenes. We also describe how qualitative scene concepts may be learned from examples.

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Artificial intelligenceComputer scienceSearch engine indexingHistogramScene statisticsPattern recognition (psychology)GeneralizationComputer visionFeature (linguistics)Similarity (geometry)Encoding (memory)Feature extractionPerceptionImage (mathematics)Mathematics

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2002
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1007-1013
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P. Lipson, Eric Grimson, Pradeep K. Sinha (2002). Configuration based scene classification and image indexing. Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 1007-1013. https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.1997.609453

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