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Image object classification using saccadic search, spatio-temporal pattern encoding and self-organisation

✍ Scribed by Vlatko Bečanović


Book ID
104305000
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
236 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-8655

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✦ Synopsis


A method for extracting features from photographic images is investigated. The input image is through a saccadic search algorithm divided into a set of sub-images, segmented and coded by a spatio-temporal encoding engine. The input image is thus represented by a set of characteristic pattern signatures, well suited for classi®cation by an unsupervised neural network. A strategy using multiple self-organising feature maps (SOM) in a hierarchical manner is used. With this approach, using a certain degree of user selection, a database of sub-images is grouped according to similarities in signature space.