Improved object categorization and detection using comparative object similarity

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Due to the intrinsic long-tailed distribution of objects in the real world, we are unlikely to be able to train an object recognizer/detector with many visual examples for each category. We have to share visual knowledge between object categories to enable learning with few or no training examples. In this paper, we show that local object similarity information - statements that pairs of categories are similar or dissimilar - is a very useful cue to tie different categories to each other for effective knowledge transfer. The key insight: Given a set of object categories which are similar and a set of categories which are dissimilar, a good object model should respond more strongly to examples from similar categories than to examples from dissimilar categories. To exploit this category-dependent similarity regularization, we develop a regularized kernel machine algorithm to train kernel classifiers for categories with few or no training examples. We also adapt the state-of-the-art object detector to encode object similarity constraints. Our experiments on hundreds of categories from the Labelme dataset show that our regularized kernel classifiers can make significant improvement on object categorization. We also evaluate the improved object detector on the PASCAL VOC 2007 benchmark dataset.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number6482138
Pages (from-to)2442-2453
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Volume35
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Comparative object similarity
  • PASCAL VOC
  • SVM
  • deformable part model
  • kernel machines
  • object categorization
  • object detection
  • sharing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Improved object categorization and detection using comparative object similarity'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this