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2014

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Content-based image retrieval

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Deep Learning For Content-Based Image Retrieval: A Comprehensive Study, Ji Wan, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Pengcheng Wu, Jianke Zhu, Yongdong Zhang, Jintao Li Nov 2014

Deep Learning For Content-Based Image Retrieval: A Comprehensive Study, Ji Wan, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Pengcheng Wu, Jianke Zhu, Yongdong Zhang, Jintao Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Learning effective feature representations and similarity measures are crucial to the retrieval performance of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system. Despite extensive research efforts for decades, it remains one of the most challenging open problems that considerably hinders the successes of real-world CBIR systems. The key challenge has been attributed to the well-known "semantic gap" issue that exists between low-level image pixels captured by machines and high-level semantic concepts perceived by human. Among various techniques, machine learning has been actively investigated as a possible direction to bridge the semantic gap in the long term. Inspired by recent successes of deep …


Online Multi-Modal Distance Metric Learning With Application To Image Retrieval, Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Peilin Zhao, Chunyan Miao, Zhi-Yong Liu Apr 2014

Online Multi-Modal Distance Metric Learning With Application To Image Retrieval, Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Peilin Zhao, Chunyan Miao, Zhi-Yong Liu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

See https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2924/. Distance metric learning (DML) is an important technique to improve similarity search in content-based image retrieval. Despite being studied extensively, most existing DML approaches typically adopt a single-modal learning framework that learns the distance metric on either a single feature type or a combined feature space where multiple types of features are simply concatenated. Such single-modal DML methods suffer from some critical limitations: (i) some type of features may significantly dominate the others in the DML task due to diverse feature representations; and (ii) learning a distance metric on the combined high-dimensional feature space can be extremely …


Retrieval-Based Face Annotation By Weak Label Regularized Local Coordinate Coding, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He, Jianke Zhu, Mei Tao, Jiebo Luo Mar 2014

Retrieval-Based Face Annotation By Weak Label Regularized Local Coordinate Coding, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He, Jianke Zhu, Mei Tao, Jiebo Luo

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Auto face annotation, which aims to detect human faces from a facial image and assign them proper human names, is a fundamental research problem and beneficial to many real-world applications. In this work, we address this problem by investigating a retrieval-based annotation scheme of mining massive web facial images that are freely available over the Internet. In particular, given a facial image, we first retrieve the top n similar instances from a large-scale web facial image database using content-based image retrieval techniques, and then use their labels for auto annotation. Such a scheme has two major challenges: 1) how to …


Mining Weakly Labeled Web Facial Images For Search-Based Face Annotation, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He, Jianke Zhu Jan 2014

Mining Weakly Labeled Web Facial Images For Search-Based Face Annotation, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He, Jianke Zhu

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This paper investigates a framework of search-based face annotation (SBFA) by mining weakly labeled facial images that are freely available on the World Wide Web (WWW). One challenging problem for search-based face annotation scheme is how to effectively perform annotation by exploiting the list of most similar facial images and their weak labels that are often noisy and incomplete. To tackle this problem, we propose an effective unsupervised label refinement (ULR) approach for refining the labels of web facial images using machine learning techniques. We formulate the learning problem as a convex optimization and develop effective optimization algorithms to solve …


Online Multiple Kernel Similarity Learning For Visual Search, Hao Xia, Chu Hong Hoi, Rong Jin, Peilin Zhao Jan 2014

Online Multiple Kernel Similarity Learning For Visual Search, Hao Xia, Chu Hong Hoi, Rong Jin, Peilin Zhao

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Recent years have witnessed a number of studies on distance metric learning to improve visual similarity search in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Despite their successes, most existing methods on distance metric learning are limited in two aspects. First, they usually assume the target proximity function follows the family of Mahalanobis distances, which limits their capacity of measuring similarity of complex patterns in real applications. Second, they often cannot effectively handle the similarity measure of multimodal data that may originate from multiple resources. To overcome these limitations, this paper investigates an online kernel similarity learning framework for learning kernel-based proximity functions …