Vector Quantization Enhancement for Computer Vision Tasks

This paper augments the Bag-of-Word scheme in several respects: we incorporate a category label into the clustering process, build classifier-tailored codebooks, and weight codewords according to their probability to occur. A size-adaptive feature clustering algorithm is also proposed as an alternative to k-means. Experiments on the PASCAL VOC 2007 challenge validate the approach for classical hard-assignment as well as VLAD encoding.