An ontology-based hybrid methodology for image synthesis and identification with convex objects
Nanfei Sun, Jian Denny Lin, Michael Wu · The Imaging Science Journal · 2018
One of the core challenges in developing a computer system for machine learning is to make the system learn efficiently and effectively like a real human by grasping the domain knowledge exemplified by human experts. In this challenge, we have introduced a hybrid image synthesis model that can simulate one of the human’s learning capabilities in the vision field – the ability to synthesize images of convex objects by identifying solid geometries and textures of specific objects using few photographs. We have incorporated an ontology-based, domain knowledge on solid geometries into our model to synthesize large number of training images with only a minimum number of input images. Our initial experiments have shown that our model has convincing improvements by demonstrating a substantially better FAR/FRR/EER results when it is compared with a smaller set of non-synthetic images.