Image Target Recognition via Mixed Feature-Based Joint Sparse Representation.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

An image target recognition approach based on mixed features and adaptive weighted joint sparse representation is proposed in this paper. This method is robust to the illumination variation, deformation, and rotation of the target image. It is a data-lightweight classification framework, which can recognize targets well with few training samples. First, Gabor wavelet transform and convolutional neural network (CNN) are used to extract the Gabor wavelet features and deep features of training samples and test samples, respectively. Then, the contribution weights of the Gabor wavelet feature vector and the deep feature vector are calculated. After adaptive weighted reconstruction, we can form the mixed features and obtain the training sample feature set and test sample feature set. Aiming at the high-dimensional problem of mixed features, we use principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensions. Lastly, the public features and private features of images are extracted from the training sample feature set so as to construct the joint feature dictionary. Based on joint feature dictionary, the sparse representation based classifier (SRC) is used to recognize the targets. The experiments on different datasets show that this approach is superior to some other advanced methods.

Authors

  • Xin Wang
    Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology (Northeast Forestry University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.
  • Can Tang
    School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China.
  • Ji Li
    Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 801 NE 13th Street, CHB 203, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, x 30126.
  • Peng Zhang
    Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, China.
  • Wei Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China.