Abstract
AbstractAs an alternative to vector representations, a recent trend in image classification suggests to integrate additional structural information in the description of images in order to enhance classification accuracy. Rather than being represented in a p-dimensional space, images can typically be encoded in the form of strings, trees or graphs and are usually compared either by computing suited metrics such as the (string or tree)-edit distance, or by testing subgraph isomorphism. In this paper, we propose a new way for representing images in the form of strings whose symbols are weighted according to a TF-IDF-based weighting scheme, inspired from information retrieval. To be able to handle such real-valued weights, we first introduce a new weighted string edit distance that keeps the properties of a distance. In particular, we prove that the triangle inequality is preserved which allows the computation of the edit distance in quadratic time by dynamic programming. We show on an image classification task that our new weighted edit distance not only significantly outperforms the standard edit distance but also seems very competitive in comparison with standard histogram distances-based approaches.KeywordsVisual WordMinimum Span TreeEdit DistanceEdit OperationAlphabet SizeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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