Feature selection through adaptive sparse learning for scene recognition

Scene recognition is an important and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Current research typically focuses on local features in scene images by utilizing pretrained convolutional neural networks (CNN) to obtain a feature dictionary. However, these local features often contain similar features to other scene categories, leading to feature confusion and subsequently low accuracy in scene recognition. Therefore, focusing on local features for scene recognition is controversial. In contrast to existing works, we consider extracting common features within the same category from scene images and using them as discriminative features between different categories. We propose a scene recognition method based on adaptive sparse learning feature selection. This method leverages sparse learning to distinguish the contribution of each feature in the deep features to the classification task, aiming to construct a salient feature dictionary that describes the importance of features in scene images. Subsequently, an adaptive weight optimization method is employed through alternating updates to automatically adjust feature weights, enabling the selection of common features within the same scene category from the compact dictionary. Experimental results on multiple benchmark scene recognition datasets demonstrate that our proposed method is superior to state-of-the-art methods.