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Object-centric spatial pooling for image classification

US8761510B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. · US

Inventors

Olga Russakovsky · Palo Alto, US
Yuanqing Lin · Sunnyvale, US
Kai Yu · Santa Clara, US
Fei Li · Pu, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 14, 2012
Grant date	Jun 24, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 12, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V20/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method is provided for classifying an image. The method includes inferring location information of an object of interest in an input representation of the image. The method further includes determining foreground object features and background object features from the input representation of the image. The method additionally includes pooling the foreground object features separately from the background object features using the location information to form a new representation of the image. The new representation is different than the input representation of the image. The method also includes classifying the image based on the new representation of the image.

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