Search for Visual Objects by Request in the Form of a Cluster Representation for the Structural Image Description

Abstract

The key task of computer vision is the recognition of visual objects in the analysed image. This paper proposes a method of searching for objects in an image, based on the identification of a cluster representation of the query descriptions and the cur- rent image of the window with the calculation of the relevance measure. The implementation of a cluster representation significantly increases the speed of iden- tification or classification of visual objects while main- taining a sufficient level of accuracy. Based on the de- velopment of models for the analysis and processing of a set of descriptors of keypoints, we have obtained an effective method for the identification of visual objects. A comparative experiment with the traditional method has been conducted, where a linear search for the nearest descriptor was implemented for identifi- cation without using a cluster representation of the description. In the experiment, a speed gain for the developed method has been obtained in comparison with the traditional one by approximately 5.2 times with the same level of accuracy. The method can be used in applied tasks where the time of object identification is critical. The developed method can be applied to search for several objects of different classes. The effective- ness of the method can be increased by varying the values of its parameters and adapting to the charac- teristics of the data.