Multi-Scale Pyramid Pooling for Deep Convolutional Representation

Donggeun Yoo, Sunggyun Park, Joon-Young Lee, In So Kweon; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2015, pp. 71-80

Abstract


Compared to image representation based on low-level local descriptors, deep neural activations of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are richer in mid-level representation, but poorer in geometric invariance properties. In this paper, we present a straightforward framework for better image representation by combining the two approaches. To take advantages of both representations, we extract a fair amount of multi-scale dense local activations from a pre-trained CNN. We then aggregate the activations by Fisher kernel framework, which has been modified with a simple scale-wise normalization essential to make it suitable for CNN activations. Our representation demonstrates new state-of-the-art performances on three public datasets: 80.78% (Acc.) on MIT Indoor 67, 83.20% (mAP) on PASCAL VOC 2007 and 91.28% (Acc.) on Oxford 102 Flowers. The results suggest that our proposal can be used as a primary image representation for better performances in wide visual recognition tasks.

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@InProceedings{Yoo_2015_CVPR_Workshops,
author = {Yoo, Donggeun and Park, Sunggyun and Lee, Joon-Young and So Kweon, In},
title = {Multi-Scale Pyramid Pooling for Deep Convolutional Representation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2015}
}