Master’s Thesis Pre-Proposal: (Indoor versus Outdoor Scene Classification)

Over the last few years the interest in the research problem of indoor vs. outdoor scene classification[2] has grown significantly, due to its importance in many applications such as Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) or Query by Image Content (QBIC), image data organization, robotics, and photography, thus providing a strong motivation for this project. For an example, knowledge of a scene type helps in event classification which is a fundamental component for automatic album systems. The main aim of this project is to implement and analyze two different methodologies for scene classification. More specifically this work is formulated as a binary problem of classifying an arbitrary scene as being indoor or outdoor.