李培华

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性别:男

毕业院校:哈尔滨工业大学

学位:博士

所在单位:信息与通信工程学院

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Local Log-Euclidean Multivariate Gaussian Descriptor and Its Application to Image Classification

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论文类型:期刊论文

第一作者:Li, Peihua

通讯作者:Li, PH (reprint author), Dalian Univ Technol, Sch Informat & Commun Engn, Dalian, Peoples R China.

合写作者:Wang, Qilong,Zeng, Hui,Zhang, Lei

发表时间:2017-04-01

发表刊物:IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

收录刊物:SCIE、EI

卷号:39

期号:4

页面范围:803-817

ISSN号:0162-8828

关键字:Image descriptors; space of Gaussians; Lie group; image classification

摘要:This paper presents a novel image descriptor to effectively characterize the local, high-order image statistics. Our work is inspired by the Diffusion Tensor Imaging and the structure tensor method (or covariance descriptor), and motivated by popular distribution-based descriptors such as SIFT and HoG. Our idea is to associate one pixel with a multivariate Gaussian distribution estimated in the neighborhood. The challenge lies in that the space of Gaussians is not a linear space but a Riemannian manifold. We show, for the first time to our knowledge, that the space of Gaussians can be equipped with a Lie group structure by defining a multiplication operation on this manifold, and that it is isomorphic to a subgroup of the upper triangular matrix group. Furthermore, we propose methods to embed this matrix group in the linear space, which enables us to handle Gaussians with Euclidean operations rather than complicated Riemannian operations. The resulting descriptor, called Local Log-Euclidean Multivariate Gaussian (L(2)EMG) descriptor, works well with low-dimensional and high-dimensional raw features. Moreover, our descriptor is a continuous function of features without quantization, which can model the first-and second-order statistics. Extensive experiments were conducted to evaluate thoroughly L(2)EMG, and the results showed that L(2)EMG is very competitive with state-of-the-art descriptors in image classification.