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Semi-Supervised Distance Metric Learning For Collaborative Image Retrieval, Steven Hoi, Wei Liu, Shih-Fu Chang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) solutions with regular Euclidean metric usually cannot achieve satisfactory performance due to the semantic gap challenge. Hence, relevance feedback has been adopted as a promising approach to improve the search performance. In this paper, we propose a novel idea of learning with historical relevance feedback log data, and adopt a new paradigm called “Collaborative Image Retrieval” (CIR). To effectively explore the log data, we propose a novel semi-supervised distance metric learning technique, called “Laplacian Regularized Metric Learning” (LRML), for learning robust distance metrics for CIR. Different from previous methods, the proposed LRML method integrates both …