Discovering objects and their location in images

@article{Sivic2005DiscoveringOA,
  title={Discovering objects and their location in images},
  author={Josef Sivic and Bryan C. Russell and Alexei A. Efros and Andrew Zisserman and William T. Freeman},
  journal={Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1},
  year={2005},
  volume={1},
  pages={370-377 Vol. 1}
}
We seek to discover the object categories depicted in a set of unlabelled images. We achieve this using a model developed in the statistical text literature: probabilistic latent semantic analysis (pLSA). In text analysis, this is used to discover topics in a corpus using the bag-of-words document representation. Here we treat object categories as topics, so that an image containing instances of several categories is modeled as a mixture of topics. The model is applied to images by using a… 
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