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Articles | Volume I-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-I-3-197-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-I-3-197-2012
20 Jul 2012
 | 20 Jul 2012

LEARNING A COMPOSITIONAL REPRESENTATION FOR FACADE OBJECT CATEGORIZATION

S. Wenzel and W. Förstner

Keywords: object categorization, facade image interpretation, bag of words

Abstract. Our objective is the categorization of the most dominant objects in facade images, like windows, entrances and balconies. In order to execute an image interpretation of complex scenes we need an interaction between low level bottom-up feature detection and highlevel inference from top-down. A top-down approach would use results of a bottom-up detection step as evidence for some high-level inference of scene interpretation. We present a statistically founded object categorization procedure that is suited for bottom-up object detection. Instead of choosing a bag of features in advance and learning models based on these features, it is more natural to learn which features best describe the target object classes. Therefore we learn increasingly complex aggregates of line junctions in image sections from man-made scenes. We present a method for the classification of image sections by using the histogram of diverse types of line aggregates.