
Matlab scripts used to create database of 16 object categories
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0) translate128x128.m
- Resizes and pads images to common size of 128x128 pixels
- database/imagesSharingIJCV contains output of this script

1) dictionaryKmeans.m
- Extracts SIFT descriptors from subset of training images
- Builds dictionary of visual words using kmeans.m (statistics toolbox)
- NOTE: The IJCV dictionary was built from a different set of images

2) precomputeSIFT.m
- Computes and stores SIFT descriptors for training images

3) encodeWords.m
- Maps precomputed SIFT descriptors to visual words using dictionary

