The Bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) model discards image spatial information, and the computing cost is expensive on spatial pyramid matching(SPM) model. Due to sparse coding approach exhibit super performance in information retrieval, hence, we propose a new sparse coding image retrieval algorithm. Using 2 l norm replace 0 l norm in SPM vector quantization. The local information was incorporated in...

Image annotation and retrieval has been a popular research topic for decades. Based on published journals from 2012 until 2015, a lot of research and studies has been focused on Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). In most cases, CBIR systems that use an image as the input query always face a problem called semantic gap due to the use of low-level features for similarity matching. The semantic...

— Map retrieval, the problem of similarity search over a large collection of 2D pointset maps previously built by mobile robots, is crucial for autonomous navigation in indoor and outdoor environments. Bag-of-words (BoW) methods constitute a popular approach to map retrieval; however, these methods have extremely limited descriptive ability because they ignore the spatial layout information of ...

With the SIFT and SURF based recognition, the paper presents the impact of salient features in object recognition. We use the two well-known image descriptors in the bag of words framework on five online available standard datasets. Experiments show that by introducing saliency in the bag of words model, state-of-the-art performance can still be retained while reducing considerable amount of da...

Proximity Distribution Kernel is an effective method for bag-offeatues based image representation. In this paper, we investigate the soft assignment of visual words to image features for proximity distribution. Visual word contribution function is proposed to model ambiguous proximity distributions. Three ambiguous proximity distributions is developed by three ambiguous contribution functions. ...

A Modified Iris Suture Technique for In-the-bag Intraocular Lens Dislocation Clinically significant posterior chamber intraocular lens (PCIOL) decentrations or dislocations occur in the aftermath of approximately 2% to 3% of cataract surgeries. Early inor out-of-the-bag intraocular lens (IOL) dislocations arise within 3 months of surgery, primarily as a result of traumatic zonular or capsular r...

In content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and image screening, it is often desirable to locate the regions of interest (ROI) in the images automatically. This can be accomplished with multi-instance learning techniques by treating each image as a bag of instances (regions). Many SVM-based methods are successful in predicting the bag labels, however, few of them can locate the ROIs. Moreover, they...

Several local features have become quite popular for concept detection and search, due to their ability to capture distinctive details. Typically a Bag of Words approach is followed, where a codebook is built by quantizing the local features. In this paper, we propose to represent SIFT local features extracted form an image as a multivariate Gaussian distribution, obtaining a mean vector and a ...