Analysis of Biologically Inspired Model for Object Recognition

Human visual system can categorize objects rapidly and effortlessly despite the complexity and objective ambiguities of natural images. Despite the ease with which we see, visual categorization is an extremely difficult task for computers due to the variability of objects, such as scale, rotation, illumination, position and occlusion. This paper presents a biologically inspired model which gives a promising solution to object categorization in color space. Here, the biologically inspired features were extracted by log-polar Gabor Transform, aided by maximum operation and convolution with Prototype patches based on the saliency of the image. The extracted features are classified by SVM classifier. The framework has been applied to the image dataset taken from the Amsterdam Library of Object Images (ALOI) and the results are presented.