Data augmentation by combining feature selection and color features for image classification

Image classification is an essential task in computer vision with various applications such as bio-medicine, industrial inspection. In some specific cases, a huge training data is required to have a better model. However, it is true that full label data is costly to obtain. Many basic pre-processing methods are applied for generating new images by translation, rotation, flipping, cropping, and adding noise. This could lead to degrade the performance. In this paper, we propose a method for data augmentation based on color features information combining with feature selection. This combination allows improving the classification accuracy. The proposed approach is evaluated on several texture datasets by using local binary patterns features

Vehicle logo recognition using histograms of oriented gradient descriptor and sparsity score

Most of vehicle have the similar structures and designs. It is extremely complicated and difficult to identify and classify vehicle brands based on their structure and shape. As we requirea quick and reliable response, so vehicle logos are an alternative method of determining the type of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose a method for vehicle logo recognition based on feature  selection method in a hybrid way. Vehicle logo images are first characterized by histograms of oriented gradient descriptors and the final features vector are then applied feature selection method to reduce the irrelevant information. Moreover, we release a new benchmark dataset for vehicle logo recognition and retrieval task namely, VLR-40. The experimental results are evaluated on this database which show the efficiency of the proposed approach

Realtime face matching and gender prediction based on deep learning

Face analysis is an essential topic in computer vision that dealing with human faces for recognition or prediction tasks. The face is one of the easiest ways to distinguish the identity people. Face recognition is a type of personal identification system that employs a person’s personal traits to determine their identity. Human face recognition scheme generally consists of four steps, namely face detection, alignment, representation, and verification. In this paper, we propose to extract information from human face for several tasks based on recent advanced deep learning framework. The proposed approach outperforms the results in the state-of-the-art

Traffic Sign Recognition by Color Filtering and Particle Swarm Optimization

Abstract. In this paper a comprehensive approach to traffic sign detection and recognition is proposed. An RGB roadside image is acquired. Color filtering and segmentation is used to detect the boundary of traffic sign in binary mode. At the feature extraction stage, the RGB traffic sign region is cropped. The image is resized to 100x100 pixels. Finally, particle swarm optimization is used to identify the traffic sign. Experimental results show that our system can give a high recognition rate for all types of traffic signs used in Thailand: namely, prohibitory signs (red or blue), general warning signs (yellow) and construction area warning signs (amber)

Ensemble feature selection approach based on feature ranking for rice seed images classification

In smart agriculture, rice variety inspection systems based on computer vision need to be used for recognizing rice seeds instead of using technical experts. In this paper, we have investigated three types of local descriptors, such as Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and GIST to characterize rice seed images. However, this approach raises the curse of dimensionality phenomenon and needs to select the relevant features for a compact and better representation model. A new ensemble feature selection is proposed to represent all useful information collected from different single feature selection methods. The experimental results have shown the efficiency of our proposed method in terms of accuracy