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Automatic Query Image Disambiguation for Content-Based Image Retrieval

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017-11-06 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

Query images presented to content-based image retrieval systems often have various different interpretations, making it difficult to identify the search objective pursued by the user. We propose a technique for overcoming this ambiguity, while keeping the amount of required user interaction at a minimum. To achieve this, the neighborhood of the query image is divided into coherent clusters from which the user may choose the relevant ones. A novel feedback integration technique is then employed to re-rank the entire database with regard to both the user feedback and the original query. We evaluate our approach on the publicly available MIRFLICKR-25K dataset, where it leads to a relative improvement of average precision by 23% over the baseline retrieval, which does not distinguish between different image senses.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00953,
  title  = {Automatic Query Image Disambiguation for Content-Based Image Retrieval},
  author = {Björn Barz and Joachim Denzler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00953},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

VISAPP 2018 paper, 8 pages, 5 figures. Source code: https://github.com/cvjena/aid

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