A Review of Indoor-Outdoor Scene Classification

Abstract

Indoor-Outdoor scene classification problem have been proposed for almost 20 years and widely applied to general scene classification, image retrieval, image processing and robot application. But there is no consensus on one particular scene classification technique that can solve the Indoor-Outdoor scene classification problem perfectly. As larger image dataset has been developed and machine learning technology especially deep learning based methods achieve remarkable performance in computer vision, we aim to provide guidance and direction for researchers to tackle the Indoor-Outdoor scene classification problem with more powerful and robust solution through concluding the Indoor-Outdoor scene classification approaches which have been proposed in last 20 years. In this paper, we review the Indoor-Outdoor scene classification including feature extraction, classifier and related dataset. Their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. At last we conclude some challenging problems remain unsolved and propose some potential solutions.