Object extraction from images/videos using a genetic algorithm based approach

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2008

Öğrenci: TURGAY YILMAZ

Danışman: ADNAN YAZICI

Özet:

The increase in the use of digital video/image has showed the need for modeling and querying the semantic content in them. Using manual annotation techniques for defining the semantic content is both costly in time and have limitations on querying capabilities. So, the need for content based information retrieval in multimedia domain is to extract the semantic content in an automatic way. The semantic content is usually defined with the objects in images/videos. In this thesis, a Genetic Algorithm based object extraction and classification mechanism is proposed for extracting the content of the videos and images. The object extraction is defined as a classification problem and a Genetic Algorithm based classifier is proposed for classification. Candidate objects are extracted from videos/images by using Normalized-cut segmentation and sent to the classifier for classification. Objects are defined with the Best Representative and Discriminative Feature (BRDF) model, where features are MPEG-7 descriptors. The decisions of the classifier are calculated by using these features and BRDF model. The classifier improves itself in time, with the genetic operations of GA. In addition to these, the system supports fuzziness by making multiple categorization and giving fuzzy decisions on the objects. Externally from the base model, a statistical feature importance determination method is proposed to generate BRDF model of the categories automatically. In the thesis, a platform independent application for the proposed system is also implemented.