title: Epitomic location recognition.
abstract: This paper presents a novel method for location recognition, which exploits an epitomic representation to achieve both high efficiency and good generalization. A generative model based on epitomic image analysis captures the appearance and geometric structure of an environment while allowing for variations due to motion, occlusions, and non-Lambertian effects. The ability to model translation and scale invariance together with the fusion of diverse visual features yields enhanced generalization with economical training. Experiments on both existing and new labeled image databases result in recognition accuracy superior to state of the art with real-time computational performance.
authors.affiliation: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 350426 Georgia Tech Station, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. nikai@cc.gatech.edu
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Anitha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Criminisi
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Winn