Abstract
We investigate the use of statistical shape measures for segmented image regions to construct taxonomies of visual similarity. It is demonstrated that without the use of a priori knowledge, cluster analysis can be used to impose structure on heterogeneous image data sets. We develop visual taxonomies to accomplish moderate classification tasks, and provide a framework for more powerful, open-ended analysis of large data sets. The power of this method is demonstrated using a visual taxonomy of textual data, which is shown to be efficient in an MDL context
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2006. ICPR 2006 |
Publisher | IEEE Press |
Pages | 732 - 735 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Print) | 0-7695-2521-0 |
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Publication status | Published - 2006 |