Generic object recognition by combining distinct features in machine learning

In a genetic image object recognition or categorization system, the relevant features or descriptors from a characteristic point, patch or region of an image are often obtained by different approaches. And these features are often separately selected and learned by machine learning methods. In this paper, the relation between distinct features obtained by different feature extraction approaches from the same original images were studied by Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA). We apply a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier in the learnt semantic space of the combined features and compare against SVM on the raw data and previously published state-of-the-art results. Experiment show that significant improvement is achieved with the SVM in the semantic space in comparison with direct SVM classification on the raw data.