AUTOMATED OBJECT SHAPE MODELLING BY CLUSTERING OF WEB IMAGES

Giuseppe Scardino, Ignazio Infantino, Salvatore Gaglio

2008

Abstract

The paper deals with the description of a framework to create shape models of an object using images from the web. Results obtained from different image search engines using simple keywords are filtered, and it is possible to select images viewing a single object owning a well-defined contour. In order to have a large set of valid images, the implemented system uses lexical web databases (e.g. WordNet) or free web encyclopedias (e.g. Wikipedia), to get more keywords correlated to the given object. The shapes extracted from selected images are represented by Fourier descriptors, and are grouped by K-means algorithm. Finally, the more representative shapes of main clusters are considered as prototypical contours of the object. Preliminary experimental results are illustrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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in Harvard Style

Scardino G., Infantino I. and Gaglio S. (2008). AUTOMATED OBJECT SHAPE MODELLING BY CLUSTERING OF WEB IMAGES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 252-255. DOI: 10.5220/0001075002520255


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Giuseppe Scardino and Ignazio Infantino and Salvatore Gaglio},
title={AUTOMATED OBJECT SHAPE MODELLING BY CLUSTERING OF WEB IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={252-255},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001075002520255},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - AUTOMATED OBJECT SHAPE MODELLING BY CLUSTERING OF WEB IMAGES
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Scardino G.
AU - Infantino I.
AU - Gaglio S.
PY - 2008
SP - 252
EP - 255
DO - 10.5220/0001075002520255