“The success of our classifier does not come from the careful selection of a few colors with high predictive values, but rather from the combination of a large number of weakly predictive features.”
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Here the author explains how they used boolean color features as opposed to a color histogram to look for colors in an image. Boolean color features = Look for the existence of more than one instance of a color in a region.
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