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Aggregating Local Image Descriptors into Compact Codes

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Jegou, H., Perronnin, F., Douze, M., Sanchez, J., Perez, P., Schmid, C.·2012·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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This paper addresses the problem of large-scale image search. Three constraints have to be taken into account: search accuracy, efficiency, and memory usage. We first present and evaluate different ways of aggregating local image descriptors into a vector and show that the Fisher kernel achieves better performance than the reference bag-of-visual words approach for any given vector dimension. We then jointly optimize dimensionality reduction and indexing in order to obtain a precise vector comparison as well as a compact representation. The evaluation shows that the image representation can be reduced to a few dozen bytes while preserving high accuracy. Searching a 100 million image data set takes about 250 ms on one processor core.

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Authors
Jegou, H., Perronnin, F., Douze, M., Sanchez, J., Perez, P., & Schmid, C.
Affiliations
  • Xerox (France) (FR)
  • Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2012-09
Volume
34
Issue
9
Pages
1704-1716
ISSN
  • 0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
  • 2160-9292
OpenAlex
W1984309565
Cited by
1,503
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 80 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 111 · 2019: 147 · 2018: 149 · 2017: 163 · 2016: 192 · 2015: 178 · 2014: 118 · 2013: 71 · 2012: 21
FWCI
72.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
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  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-07-BLAN-0328)
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
local image descriptors, descriptor aggregation, Fisher kernel, bag of visual words, large-scale image search, dimensionality reduction, image indexing, compact image representation, vector comparison

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