Bag-of-Words-Scene-Recognition

implementation of Bag of Words (BoW) Scene Recognition

BoW procedure outline

We used dsift to find keypoints of features from training set and k-means clustering to build K vocabularies with 'build_vocabulary.py'. Next, 'get_bags_of_sifts.py' is used to identify distance between keypoints and vocabularies for each image, and build the histogram which records occurrence frequencies of nearest descriptors for each vocabulary. Finally, we calculated distances of BoW between training and testing sets and classified each testing image according to K-nearest training images.

Dataset

You can get the training and testing set here.

Procedures and Results

1. Get feature vectors from 'tiny images' and use KNN classifier to predict the label of test data where the accuracy is about 0.23. The command is as follows:

python3 p1.py --feature 'tiny_image' --classifier 'nearest_neighbor'

2. Get feature vectors from 'Bag of Sift', and use KNN classifier to predict the label of test data where the accuracy is about 0.61. The command is as follows:

python3 p1.py --feature 'bag_of_sift' --classifier 'nearest_neighbor'