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Gaussian normalization: handling burstiness in visual data

Trichet, Remi and O'Connor, Noel E. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 (2019) Gaussian normalization: handling burstiness in visual data. In: 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), 18-21 Sept 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract
This paper addresses histogram burstiness, defined as the tendency of histograms to feature peaks out of pro- portion with their general distribution. After highlighting the impact of this growing issue on computer vision prob- lems and the need to preserve the distribution informa- tion, we introduce a new normalization based on a Gaus- sian fit with a pre-defined variance for each datum that suppresses burst without adversely affecting the distribu- tion. Experimental results on four public datasets show that our normalization scheme provides a staggering per- formance boost compared to other normalizations, even al- lowing Gaussian-normalized Bag-of-Words to perform sim- ilarly to intra-normalized Fisher vectors.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Published in: 2019 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS). . IEEE.
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2019.8909857
Copyright Information:© 2019 the Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland grant number SFI/12/RC/2289.
ID Code:23603
Deposited On:23 Sep 2019 09:17 by Noel Edward O'connor . Last Modified 17 Feb 2020 16:28
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