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For the task of visual-based automatic product image classification for e-commerce, this paper constructs a set of support vector machine (SVM) classifiers with different model representations. Each base SVM classifier is trained with either different types of features or different spatial levels. The probability outputs of these SVM classifiers are concatenated into feature vectors for training another SVM classifier with a Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) kernel. This scheme achieves state-of-the-art average accuracy of 86.9% for product image classification on the public product dataset PI 100.
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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 70890083) and the Project of National Innovation Fund for Technology Based Firms (No. 09c26222123243)
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Jia, Sj., Kong, Xw. & Man, H. Automatic product image classification with multiple support vector machine classifiers. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 16, 391–394 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-011-1180-x
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