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Image Classification with the Fisher Vector: Theory and Practice

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Sánchez, Jorge, Perronnin, Florent, Mensink, Thomas, Verbeek, Jakob·2013·International Journal of Computer Vision

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  • FV is able to obtain a high discriminative subspace with complementary feature subspace exploration.

    “Compared with the conventional methods, FV is able to obtain high discriminative subspace with the complementary feature subspace exploration.”

    From Discriminative Learning for Automatic Staging of Placental Maturity via Multi-layer Fisher Vector (2015) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Introduction says FV incorporates additional gradients that improve classification accuracy, and Section 2.5 says it contains more information than BoV by including gradients for means and standard deviations. These passages support the comparison with conventional representations, but they do not establish that FV obtains a discriminative subspace through complementary feature-subspace exploration. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • SIFT achieves superior performance compared to other descriptors such as color, especially in the computer vision field.

    “It is known that the widely used SIFT23 achieves superior performance compared to other descriptors such as color especially in the computer vision field.”

    From Discriminative Learning for Automatic Staging of Placental Maturity via Multi-layer Fisher Vector (2015) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Introduction identifies SIFT as a commonly used image descriptor, and the reported PASCAL VOC results show higher accuracy for the SIFT-only Fisher Vector than for the LCS-only (color-statistics) Fisher Vector (61.8 versus 52.6). Those results support superiority in that particular comparison, not the broader claim that SIFT generally outperforms other descriptors across computer vision. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Sánchez, J., Perronnin, F., Mensink, T., & Verbeek, J.
Affiliations
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
  • Xerox (France) (FR)
  • University of Amsterdam (NL)
  • Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
Corresponding author
Sánchez, Jorge
Venue
International Journal of Computer Vision
Published
2013-06-12
Volume
105
Issue
3
Pages
222-245
ISSN
  • 0920-5691 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-1405
OpenAlex
W1966385142
Cited by
1,498
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 102 · 2021: 95 · 2020: 128 · 2019: 164 · 2018: 167 · 2017: 211 · 2016: 224 · 2015: 167 · 2014: 91 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 1
FWCI
171.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • International Journal of Computer Vision (publishedVersion)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
Fisher vectors, Fisher kernel, image classification, bag of visual words, product quantization, image retrieval, feature encoding, linear classifiers

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