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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Extraction and Recognition of Shoe Logos with a Wide Variety of Appearance Using Two-Stage Classifiers

Kazunori AOKI, Wataru OHYAMA, Tetsushi WAKABAYASHI

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A logo is a symbolic presentation that is designed not only to identify a product manufacturer but also to attract the attention of shoppers. Shoe logos are a challenging subject for automatic extraction and recognition using image analysis techniques because they have characteristics that distinguish them from those of other products; that is, there is much within-class variation in the appearance of shoe logos. In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction and recognition method for shoe logos with a wide variety of appearance using a limited number of training samples. The proposed method employs maximally stable extremal regions for the initial region extraction, an iterative algorithm for region grouping, and gradient features and a support vector machine for logo recognition. The results of performance evaluation experiments using a logo dataset that consists of a wide variety of appearances show that the proposed method achieves promising performance for both logo extraction and recognition.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E101-D No.5 pp.1325-1332
Publication Date
2018/05/01
Publicized
2018/02/16
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2017MVP0026
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Machine Vision and its Applications)
Category
Machine Vision and its Applications

Authors

Kazunori AOKI
  Mie University
Wataru OHYAMA
  Mie University
Tetsushi WAKABAYASHI
  Mie University

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