Section: Software and Platforms

Fisher vector image representation

Participants : Matthijs Douze [correspondant] , Hervé Jégou [TEXMEX Team Inria Rennes] , Cordelia Schmid.

We developed a package that computes Fisher vectors on sparse or dense local SIFT features. The dense feature extraction was optimized, so that they can be computed in real time on video data. The implementation was used for several publications and in our submisssion to the Trecvid 2013 MED task. We provide a binary version of the local descriptor implementation, and the Fisher implementation is integrated in the Yael library, with Python and Matlab interface, see http://lear.inrialpes.fr/src/inria_fisher .