Supervised Learning of Bag-of-features Shape Descriptors Using Sparse Coding

dc.contributor.authorLitman, Roeeen_US
dc.contributor.authorBronstein, Alexen_US
dc.contributor.authorBronstein, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorCastellani, Umbertoen_US
dc.contributor.editorThomas Funkhouser and Shi-Min Huen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-03T12:41:47Z
dc.date.available2015-03-03T12:41:47Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractWe present a method for supervised learning of shape descriptors for shape retrieval applications. Many contentbased shape retrieval approaches follow the bag-of-features (BoF) paradigm commonly used in text and image retrieval by first computing local shape descriptors, and then representing them in a 'geometric dictionary' using vector quantization. A major drawback of such approaches is that the dictionary is constructed in an unsupervised manner using clustering, unaware of the last stage of the process (pooling of the local descriptors into a BoF, and comparison of the latter using some metric). In this paper, we replace the clustering with dictionary learning, where every atom acts as a feature, followed by sparse coding and pooling to get the final BoF descriptor. Both the dictionary and the sparse codes can be learned in the supervised regime via bi-level optimization using a taskspecific objective that promotes invariance desired in the specific application. We show significant performance improvement on several standard shape retrieval benchmarks.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12438en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12438en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleSupervised Learning of Bag-of-features Shape Descriptors Using Sparse Codingen_US
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