Multi-class object localization by combining local contextual interactions

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Recent work in object localization has shown that the use of contextual cues can greatly improve accuracy over models that use appearance features alone. Although many of these models have successfully explored different types of contextual sources, they only consider one type of contextual interaction (e.g., pixel, region or object level interactions), leaving open questions about the true potential contribution of context. Furthermore, contributions across object classes and over appearance features still remain unknown. In this work, we introduce a novel model for multiclass object localization that incorporates different levels of contextual interactions. We study contextual interactions at pixel, region and object level by using three different sources of context: semantic, boundary support and contextual neighborhoods. Our framework learns a single similarity metric from multiple kernels, combining pixel and region interactions with appearance features, and then uses a conditional random field to incorporate object level interactions. We perform experiments on two challenging image databases: MSRC and PASCAL VOC 2007. Experimental results show that our model outperforms current state-of-the-art contextual frameworks and reveals individual contributions for each contextual interaction level, as well as the importance of each type of feature in object localization.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Pages (from-to)113-120
Number of pages8
ISSN1063-6919
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2010 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 13 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2010
CountryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period13/06/201018/06/2010

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