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We present a technique for estimating the similarity between objects such as movies or foods whose proper representation depends on human perception. Our technique combines a modest number of human similarity assessments to infer a pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Jesse Anderton , Pavel Metrikov , Virgil Pavlu , Javed Aslam

Measuring the similarity of short written contexts is a fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing. This article provides a unifying framework by which short context problems can be categorized both by their intended application and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Ted Pedersen

Measuring visual similarity between two or more instances within a data distribution is a fundamental task in image retrieval. Theoretically, non-metric distances are able to generate a more complex and accurate similarity model than metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Noa Garcia , George Vogiatzis

Visual question answering (VQA) has the potential to make the Internet more accessible in an interactive way, allowing people who cannot see images to ask questions about them. However, multiple studies have shown that people who are blind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nandita Naik , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss

A major computational burden, while performing document clustering, is the calculation of similarity measure between a pair of documents. Similarity measure is a function that assign a real number between 0 and 1 to a pair of documents,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-20 Muhammad Rafi , Sundus Hassan , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Using image context is an effective approach for improving object detection. Previously proposed methods used contextual cues that rely on semantic or spatial information. In this work, we explore a different kind of contextual information:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Noa Arbel , Tamar Avraham , Michael Lindenbaum

Semantic relevance metrics can capture both the inherent semantics of individual objects and their relationships to other elements within a visual scene. Numerous previous research has demonstrated that these metrics can influence human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kun Sun , Rong Wang

Contrastive learning has revolutionized the field of computer vision, learning rich representations from unlabeled data, which generalize well to diverse vision tasks. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to explain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fawaz Sammani , Boris Joukovsky , Nikos Deligiannis

The definition of similarity is a key prerequisite when analyzing complex data types in data mining, information retrieval, or machine learning. However, the meaningful definition is often hampered by the complexity of data objects and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Jürgen Bernard , Christian Ritter , David Sessler , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Jörn Kohlhammer , Dieter Fellner

Image prediction methods often struggle on tasks that require changing the positions of objects, such as video prediction, producing blurry images that average over the many positions that objects might occupy. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Daniel Geng , Max Hamilton , Andrew Owens

Image captioning models require the high-level generalization ability to describe the contents of various images in words. Most existing approaches treat the image-caption pairs equally in their training without considering the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hongkuan Zhang , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa , Lei Zhou , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

While there has been substantial progress in learning suitable distance metrics, these techniques in general lack transparency and decision reasoning, i.e., explaining why the input set of images is similar or dissimilar. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Richard J. Radke , Ziyan Wu

We propose a new technique for visual attribute transfer across images that may have very different appearance but have perceptually similar semantic structure. By visual attribute transfer, we mean transfer of visual information (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Jing Liao , Yuan Yao , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua , Sing Bing Kang

Visual search, recommendation, and contrastive similarity learning power technologies that impact billions of users worldwide. Modern model architectures can be complex and difficult to interpret, and there are several competing techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mark Hamilton , Scott Lundberg , Lei Zhang , Stephanie Fu , William T. Freeman

Judging the similarity of visualizations is crucial to various applications, such as visualization-based search and visualization recommendation systems. Recent studies show deep-feature-based similarity metrics correlate well with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sheng Long , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Emma Alexander , Matthew Kay , Jessica Hullman

The concept of image similarity is ambiguous, and images can be similar in one context and not in another. This ambiguity motivates the creation of metrics for specific contexts. This work explores the ability of deep perceptual similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

The ability to integrate context, including perceptual and temporal cues, plays a pivotal role in grounding the meaning of a linguistic utterance. In order to measure to what extent current vision-and-language models master this ability, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Benno Krojer , Vaibhav Adlakha , Vibhav Vineet , Yash Goyal , Edoardo Ponti , Siva Reddy

A major computational burden, while performing document clustering, is the calculation of similarity measure between a pair of documents. Similarity measure is a function that assigns a real number between 0 and 1 to a pair of documents,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Muhammad Rafi , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Intuitively, the concept of similarity is the notion to measure an inexact matching between two entities of the same reference set. The notions of similarity and its close relative dissimilarity are widely used in many fields of Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Lluís A. Belanche

We investigate the perceived visual complexity (VC) in data visualizations using objective image-based metrics. We collected VC scores through a large-scale crowdsourcing experiment involving 349 participants and 1,800 visualization images.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mengdi Chu , Zefeng Qiu , Meng Ling , Shuning Jiang , Robert S. Laramee , Michael Sedlmair , Jian Chen