An Expandable Hierarchical Statistical Framework for Count Data Modeling and Its Application to Object Classification
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The problem that we address in this paper is that of learning hierarchical object categories. Indeed, Digital media technology generates huge amount of non-textual information. Categorizing this information is a challenging task which has served important applications. An important part of this nontextual information is composed of images and videos which consists of various objects each of which may be used to effectively classify the images or videos. Object classification in computer vision can be looked upon from several different perspectives. From the structural perspective object classification models can be divided into flat and hierarchical models. Many of the well-known hierarchical structures proposed so far are based on the Dirichlet distribution. In this work, however, we present a generative hierarchical statistical model based on generalized Dirichlet distribution for the categorization of visual objects modeled as a set of local features describing patches detected using interest points detector. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model through extensive experiments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".