Learning Hyper-Features for Visual Identification

We address the problem of identifying specific instances of a class (cars) from a set of images all belonging to that class. Although we cannot build a model for any particular instance (as we may be provided with only one "training" example of it), we can use information extracted from observ- ing other members of the class. We pose this task as a learning problem, in which the learner is given image pairs, labeled as matching or not, and must discover which image features are most consistent for matching in- stances and discriminative for mismatches. We explore a patch based representation, where we model the distributions of similarity measure- ments defined on the patches. Finally, we describe an algorithm that selects the most salient patches based on a mutual information criterion. This algorithm performs identification well for our challenging dataset of car images, after matching only a few, well chosen patches.

Authors

• Andras Ferencz
• Erik Learned-Miller
• Jitendra Malik

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