Abstract-We present an algorithm for automatic image orientation estimation using a Bayesian learning framework. We demonstrate that a small codebook (the optimal size of codebook is selected using a modified MDL criterion) extracted from a learning vector quantizer (LVQ) can be used to estimate the class-conditional densities of the observed features needed for the Bayesian methodology. We further show how principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) can be used as a feature extraction mechanism to remove redundancies in the high-dimensional feature vectors used for classification. The proposed method is compared with four different commonly used classifiers, namely -nearest neighbor, support vector machine (SVM), a mixture of Gaussians, and hierarchical discriminating regression (HDR) tree. Experiments on a database of 16 344 images have shown that our proposed algorithm achieves an accuracy of approximately 98% on the training set and over 97% on an independent test set. A slight improvement in classification accuracy is achieved by employing classifier combination techniques. Index Terms-Author, please supply your own keywords or send a blank e-mail to keywords@ieee.org to receive a list of suggested keywords.
Vailaya et al. REF first addressed the problem of image orientation detection using a Bayesian learning framework and spatial color moments as features.
Automatic Image Orientation Detection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Mathematics Medicine Computer Science