Classification of Images Based on a System of Hierarchical Features

Abstract

The results of the development of the new fast-speed method of classification images using a structural approach are presented. The method is based on the system of hierarchical features, based on the bitwise data distribution for the set of descriptors of image description. The article also proposes the use of the spatial data processing apparatus, which simplifies and accelerates the classification process. Experiments have shown that the time of calculation of the relevance for two descriptions according to their distributions is about 1000 times less than for the traditional voting procedure, for which the sets of descriptors are compared. The introduction of the system of hierarchical features allows to further reduce the calculation time by 2–3 times while ensuring high efficiency of classification. The noise immunity of the method to additive noise has been experimentally studied. According to the results of the research, the marginal degree of the hierarchy of features for reliable classification with the standard deviation of noise less than 30 is the 8-bit distribution. Computing costs increase proportionally with decreasing bit distribution. The method can be used for application tasks where object identification time is critical.