LINEAR SPATIAL PYRAMID MATCHING USING SPARSE CODING
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1. A method to classify an input image, comprisinga. determining a spatial-pyramid image representation based on sparse coding;
- b. determining a descriptor for each interest point in the input image;
c. encoding the descriptor; and
d. applying max-pooling to form the spatial pyramid representation of images.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to classify an input image by determining a spatial-pyramid image representation based on sparse coding; determining a descriptor for each interest point in the input image; encoding the descriptor; and applying max pooling to form the spatial pyramid representation of images.
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20 Claims
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1. A method to classify an input image, comprising
a. determining a spatial-pyramid image representation based on sparse coding; -
b. determining a descriptor for each interest point in the input image; c. encoding the descriptor; and d. applying max-pooling to form the spatial pyramid representation of images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An image classifier, comprising:
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a. a nonlinear spatial pyramid matching engine with a sparse coding engine; b. a feature extractor coupled to the pyramid matching engine to form a pyramid with max pooling; and c. a linear support vector machine coupled to the feature extractor.
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