Learning visual models of object categories notoriously requires thousands of training examples; this is due to the diversity and richness of object appearance which requires models containing hundreds of parameters. We present a method for learning object categories from just a few images (1 /spl sim/ 5). It is based on incorporating "generic" knowledge which may be obtained from previously learnt models of unrelated categories. We operate in a variational Bayesian framework: object categories are represented by probabilistic models, and "prior" knowledge is represented as a probability density function on the parameters of these models. The "posterior" model for an object category is obtained by updating the prior in the light of one or more observations. Our ideas are demonstrated on four diverse categories (human faces, airplanes, motorcycles, spotted cats). Initially three categories are learnt from hundreds of training examples, and a "prior" is estimated from these. Then the model of the fourth category is learnt from 1 to 5 training examples, and is used for detecting new exemplars a set of test images.


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    Title :

    A Bayesian approach to unsupervised one-shot learning of object categories


    Contributors:
    Li Fe-Fei, (author) / Fergus, (author) / Perona, (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    1528491 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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