diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 60e73ac..d12a366 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /data - pulled images and spreadsheet of data /descriptor - functions for extracting descriptors -/distance - functions fo measuring distance between descriptors +/distance - functions for measuring distance between descriptors /util - util functions such as toGreyscale and EVD There are two types of script, ones that run a category response once (cvpr_visualsearch_*) and ones that iteratively diff --git a/report/coursework.lyx b/report/coursework.lyx index 5478e32..3706c0c 100644 --- a/report/coursework.lyx +++ b/report/coursework.lyx @@ -3431,8 +3431,18 @@ Conclusions \end_layout \begin_layout Standard -To summarise, spatial texture techniques were found to perform better than - exclusively colour based methods such as a global colour histogram. +To summarise, each descriptor has varying efficacy for different applications + and the context should be identified before selecting one over the other. +\end_layout + +\begin_layout Standard +Optimum internal parameters for each are data and query dependedent but + well performing values can be obtained experimentally. +\end_layout + +\begin_layout Standard +Spatial texture techniques were found to perform better than exclusively + colour based methods such as a global colour histogram. While the combination of both colour and texture information didn't provide as much of an improvement over either separately as expected, the combination of both colour and texture information as part of the descriptor was the @@ -3441,14 +3451,9 @@ To summarise, spatial texture techniques were found to perform better than \begin_layout Standard The use of appropriate amounts (approximately 2%) of dimensionality reduction - following principal component analysis provided additional performance - increases. - -\end_layout - -\begin_layout Standard -Following investigations into difference distance measures the L1 norm tended - to be best performing method. + following principal component analysis provided performance increases over + the standard L2 norm, however following investigations into difference + distance measures the L1 norm tended to be best performing method. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard