Deep Hierarchical Representation from Classifying Logo-405

Abstract

We introduce a logo classification mechanism which combines a series of deep representations obtained by fine-tuning convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures and traditional pattern recognition algorithms. In order to evaluate the proposed mechanism, we build a middle-scale logo dataset (named Logo-405) and treat it as a benchmark for logo related research. Our experiments are carried out on both the Logo-405 dataset and the publicly available FlickrLogos-32 dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed mechanism outperforms two popular ways used for logo classification, including the strategies that integrate hand-crafted features and traditional pattern recognition algorithms and the models which employ deep CNNs.