TY - JOUR T1 - An Efficient Approach for Visual Object Categorization based on Enhanced Generalized Gabor Filter and SVM Classifier AU - Ayad, Hayder AU - Sheikh Abdullah, Siti Norul Huda AU - Ahmed Hadi, Raad AU - Jassim Mohammed, Mamoun AU - Edwar George, Loay JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 14 IS - 16 SP - 5753 EP - 5761 PY - 2019 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2019.5753.5761 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.5753.5761 KW - Gabor filter KW -VOC technique KW -SVM classifier KW -Naive combination approach KW -unsupervised KW -benchmark AB - Filter banks such as the Gabor Filter (GF) are widely used to describe objects. The main disadvantage of the Gabor filter is that it constructs redundant and incompact filters that may decrease system recognition performance. The purpose of the current study primarily is to enhance the categorization problem through generalizing the GF method (GGF). The unsupervised machine learning algorithm, denoted by the k-means clustering algorithm is proposed to implement generalization on a GF set. To assess the performance of the proposed method, the standard GF is used as a benchmark. Furthermore, the first 20 classes and the overall classes from the dataset Caltech 101 have been utalized in the performance demonstration of the newly suggested method. Based on a single classifier and combination feature (Naive approach), the proposed GGF outperforms and shows higher potential results than the standard GF in describing objects. ER -