Image Category Classification Using Bag of Features

This example shows how to use a bag of features approach for image category classification. About Dataset 5-Flowers Dataset is used

This example shows how to use a bag of features approach for image category classification. This technique is also often referred to as bag of words. Visual image categorization is a process of assigning a category label to an image under test.

About Dataset

5-Flowers Dataset

The 5-flowers dataset was created by Google and placed in the public domain with a Creative Commons license. It is published as a TensorFlow dataset and available in a public.

There are five types of flowers in the 5-flowers dataset, and each image in the dataset has already been labeled with the type of flower it depicts.

Download and extract the Flowers data set

url = "http://download.tensorflow.org/example_images/flower_photos.tgz";