OpenSceneVLAD: Appearance Invariant, Open Set Scene Classification

William H. B. Smith,Michael Milford,Klaus D. McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan,R. B. Fisher,William H. B. Smith,Michael Milford,Klaus D. McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan,R. B. Fisher

Scene classification is a well-established area of computer vision research that aims to classify a scene image into pre-defined categories such as playground, beach and airport. Recent work has focused on increasing the variety of pre-defined categories for classification, but so far failed to consider two major challenges: changes in scene appearance due to lighting and open set classification (...