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IJMLC 2017 Vol.7(5): 123-127 ISSN: 2010-3700
DOI: 10.18178/ijmlc.2017.7.5.633

Feature Fusion for Efficient Object Classification Using Deep and Shallow Learning

T. Janani and A. Ramanan

Abstract—Bag-of-Features (BoF) approach have been successfully applied to visual object classification tasks. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrated excellent performance on object classification problems. In this paper we propose to construct a new feature set by processing CNN activations from convolutional layers fused with the traditional BoF representation for efficient object classification using SVMs. The dimension of convolutional features were reduced using PCA technique and the bag-of-features representation was reduced by tailoring the visual codebook using a statistical codeword selection method, in order to obtain a compact representation of the new feature set which achieves increased classification rate while requiring less storage. The proposed framework, based on the new features, outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches that have been evaluated on benchmark datasets: Xerox7, UIUC Texture, and Caltech-101.

Index Terms—Object classification, bag-of-features, convolutional neural network, deep learning, shallow learning.

The authors are with the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka (e-mail: janani22thangavel@ gmail.com, a.ramanan@jfn.ac.lk).

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Cite: T. Janani and A. Ramanan, "Feature Fusion for Efficient Object Classification Using Deep and Shallow Learning," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 123-127, 2017.

General Information

  • E-ISSN: 2972-368X
  • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Mach. Learn.
  • Frequency: Quaterly
  • DOI: 10.18178/IJML
  • Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Lin Huang
  • Executive Editor:  Ms. Cherry L. Chen
  • Abstracing/Indexing: Inspec (IET), Google Scholar, Crossref, ProQuest, Electronic Journals LibraryCNKI.
  • E-mail: ijml@ejournal.net


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