Hierarchy-of-Visual-Words: a Learning-based Approach for Trademark Image Retrieval
This addresses trademark image retrieval for legal and branding applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing TIR methods.
The paper tackles trademark image retrieval by proposing the Hierarchy-of-Visual-Words (HoVW) method, which decomposes images into geometric shapes and encodes their hierarchical arrangement, resulting in improved performance on MPEG-7 CE-1 and CE-2 databases.
In this paper, we present the Hierarchy-of-Visual-Words (HoVW), a novel trademark image retrieval (TIR) method that decomposes images into simpler geometric shapes and defines a descriptor for binary trademark image representation by encoding the hierarchical arrangement of component shapes. The proposed hierarchical organization of visual data stores each component shape as a visual word. It is capable of representing the geometry of individual elements and the topology of the trademark image, making the descriptor robust against linear as well as to some level of nonlinear transformation. Experiments show that HoVW outperforms previous TIR methods on the MPEG-7 CE-1 and MPEG-7 CE-2 image databases.