Skip to main content

Image and Image-Set Modeling Using a Mixture Model

  • Conference paper
  • 1220 Accesses

Abstract

Modeling an image or an image-set, which share similar visual contents, by means of a discrete distribution (such as a signature) or by means of a mixture model (such as a Gaussian mixture-model) has a major utility, and may serve as a basis for Content Based Image Retrieval and other related areas. Mixture model can encode information about color, texture, and spatial relationships between colored/textured regions. Image modeling is used in several tasks, such as Image retrieval, Automatic annotation, Unsupervised or Semi-supervised Clustering. Linear optimization techniques offer a reliable and efficient way to compute distance, in both cases, discrete distributions and mixture models. Linear optimization can be also used for modeling image-sets, by computing a mixture model that minimizes distances.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • AHRENDT, P. (2005): The Multivariate Gaussian Probability Distribution. IMM, Technical University of Denmark.

    Google Scholar 

  • DATTA, R., Ge, W., LI, J. and WANG, J. (2006): Toward Bridging the Annotation-Retrieval Gap in Image Search. In: MM’ 06. ACM, Sanata Barbara.

    Google Scholar 

  • GOLDBERGER, J., GORDON, S. and GREENSPAN, H. (2006): Unsupervised Image-Set Clustering Using an Information Theoretic Framework. In: Transactions on Image Processing. IEEE.

    Google Scholar 

  • GOLDBERGER, J., GREENSPAN, H. and DREYFUSS J. (2007): An Optimal Re- duced Representation of MoG With Applications to Medical Image Database Classification. In: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR.

    Google Scholar 

  • JENSEN, J., ELLIS, D., CHRISTENSEN, M., and JENSEN, S. (2007): Evalua- tion of Distance Measures between Gaussian Mixture Models of MFCCS. In: Austrian Computer Society. OCG.

    Google Scholar 

  • LI, J. and WANG, J.Z. (2006): Real-Time Computerized Annotation of Pictures. In: MM’ 06. ACM, Sanata Barbara.

    Google Scholar 

  • LEVINA, E. and BICKEL, P. (2001): The earth mover’s distance is the Mallows distance: Some insights from statistics. In: Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, 251-256.

    Google Scholar 

  • RUBNER, Y., TOMASI, C. and GUIBAS, L. (2000): The Earth Mover’s Distance as a Metric for Image Retrieval. International Journal of Computer Vision 40(2), 99-121.

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • STREHL, A., GHOSH, J. and MOONEY R.J. (2000): Impact of similarity measure on web-page Clustering. In: AAAI.

    Google Scholar 

  • YANG, Y. and LIU, X. (1999): A re-examination of text categorization methods. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

    Google Scholar 

  • ZHANG, K. and KWOK, J.T. (2006): Simplifying mixture models through function approximation. In: Neural Information Processing Systems. NIPS.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Charbel Julien .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2008 Physica-Verlag Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Julien, C., Saitta, L. (2008). Image and Image-Set Modeling Using a Mixture Model. In: Brito, P. (eds) COMPSTAT 2008. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2084-3_22

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics