Statistical Object Recognition Including Color Modeling

Abstract

In this paper an appearance-based statistical approach for localization and classification of 3-D objects in 2-D color images with real heterogeneous backgrounds is presented. The object feature extraction is done separately for the red, green, and blue channel. We compute six dimensional local feature vectors directly from pixel values in the images using wavelet multiresolution analysis. The first and second component of the feature vectors depend on the pixel values in the red channel, the third and fourth in the green channel, and fifth and sixth in the blue channel. Then we define an object area as a function of 3-D transformations and represent the feature vectors as probability density functions. In the recognition phase we use an algorithm based on maximum likelihood estimation for object localization and classification. Experiments made on a real data set with 39600 images compare the recognition rates for the new algorithm, which uses the color information of objects, with the results in the case of gray level images.