SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SUB-MODELS IN NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS

Victoria Yanulevskaya, Jan-Mark Geusebroek

2009

Abstract

The contrast statistics of natural images can be adequately characterized by a two-parameter Weibull distribution. Here we show how distinct regimes of this Weibull distribution lead to various classes of visual content. These regimes can be determined using model selection techniques from information theory. We experimentally explore the occurrence of the content classes, as related to the global statistics, local statistics, and to human attended regions. As such, we explicitly link local image statistics and visual content.

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Yanulevskaya V. and Geusebroek J. (2009). SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SUB-MODELS IN NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 355-362. DOI: 10.5220/0001793203550362


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@conference{visapp09,
author={Victoria Yanulevskaya and Jan-Mark Geusebroek},
title={SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SUB-MODELS IN NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={355-362},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001793203550362},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SUB-MODELS IN NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Yanulevskaya V.
AU - Geusebroek J.
PY - 2009
SP - 355
EP - 362
DO - 10.5220/0001793203550362