Video concept detection using support vector machine with augmented features

Abstract

In this paper, we present a direct application of Support Vector Machine with Augmented Features (AFSVM) for video concept detection. For each visual concept, we learn an adapted classifier by leveraging the pre-learnt SVM classifiers of other concepts. The solution of AFSVM is to retrain the SVM classifier using augmented feature, which concatenates the original feature vector with the decision value vector obtained from the pre-learnt SVM classifiers in the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). The experiments on the challenging TRECVID 2005 dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of AFSVM for video concept detection. © 2010 IEEE.