Empirical Inference

Maximum-Margin Feature Combination for Detection and Categorization

2005

Technical Report

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In this paper we are concerned with the optimal combination of features of possibly different types for detection and estimation tasks in machine vision. We propose to combine features such that the resulting classifier maximizes the margin between classes. In contrast to existing approaches which are non-convex and/or generative we propose to use a discriminative model leading to convex problem formulation and complexity control. Furthermore we assert that decision functions should not compare apples and oranges by comparing features of different types directly. Instead we propose to combine different similarity measures for each different feature type. Furthermore we argue that the question: ”Which feature type is more discriminative for task X?” is ill-posed and show empirically that the answer to this question might depend on the complexity of the decision function.

Author(s): BakIr, G. and Wu, M. and Eichhorn, J.
Year: 2005
Day: 0

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Technical Report (techreport)

Institution: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

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Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@techreport{3471,
  title = {Maximum-Margin Feature Combination
  for Detection and Categorization},
  author = {BakIr, G. and Wu, M. and Eichhorn, J.},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  year = {2005},
  doi = {}
}