Comparing state-of-the-art visual features on invariant object recognition tasks
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Pinto, Nicolas; Barhomi, Youssef; Cox, David D.; DiCarlo, James
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Tolerance (“invariance”) to identity-preserving image variation (e.g. variation in position, scale, pose, illumination) is a fundamental problem that any visual object recognition system, biological or engineered, must solve. While standard natural image database benchmarks are useful for guiding progress in computer vision, they can fail to probe the ability of a recognition system to solve the invariance problem. Thus, to understand which computational approaches are making progress on solving the invariance problem, we compared and contrasted a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations using synthetic recognition tasks designed to systematically probe invariance. We successfully re-implemented a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations and confirmed their published performance on a natural image benchmark. We here report that most of these representations perform poorly on invariant recognition, but that one representation shows significant performance gains over two baseline representations. We also show how this approach can more deeply illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of different visual representations and thus guide progress on invariant object recognition.
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2011-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MITJournal
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Pinto, Nicolas et al. “Comparing State-of-the-art Visual Features on Invariant Object Recognition Tasks.” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 5-7 Jan. 2011, Kona, HI, USA, IEEE, 2011. 463–470. Web.
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INSPEC Accession Number: 11823532
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978-1-4244-9496-5
ISSN
1550-5790