Visual Pattern Discovery and Recognition [Paperback]

This book presents a systematic study of visual pattern discovery, from unsupervised to semi-supervised manner approaches, and from dealing with a single feature to multiple types of features. Furthermore, it discusses the potential applications of discovering visual patterns for visual data analytics, including visual search, object and scene recognition.

It is intended as a reference book for advanced undergraduates or postgraduate students who are interested in visual data analytics, enabling them to quickly access the research world and acquire a systematic methodology rather than a few isolated techniques to analyze visual data with large variations. It is also inspiring for researchers working in computer vision and pattern recognition fields. Basic knowledge of linear algebra, computer vision and pattern recognition would be helpful to readers.

1. Introduction.- 2. Context-Aware Discovery of Visual Co-occurrence Patterns.- 3.  Hierarchical Sparse Coding for Visual Co-occurrence Discovery.- 4. Feature Co-occurrence for Visual Labeling.- 5. Visual Clustering with Minimax Feature Fusion.- 6. Conclusion.

Hongxing Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Chongqing University, China, and his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a faculty member at the School of Software Engineering, Chongqing University. Before joining Chongqing University, he worked as a research fellow/associate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University, and as a visiting student at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning.

Chaoqun Weng received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nankai University, China, in 2010. He is lÃf