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Learning Multi-modal Similarity

Artificial Intelligence 2010-09-01 v1

Abstract

In many applications involving multi-media data, the definition of similarity between items is integral to several key tasks, e.g., nearest-neighbor retrieval, classification, and recommendation. Data in such regimes typically exhibits multiple modalities, such as acoustic and visual content of video. Integrating such heterogeneous data to form a holistic similarity space is therefore a key challenge to be overcome in many real-world applications. We present a novel multiple kernel learning technique for integrating heterogeneous data into a single, unified similarity space. Our algorithm learns an optimal ensemble of kernel transfor- mations which conform to measurements of human perceptual similarity, as expressed by relative comparisons. To cope with the ubiquitous problems of subjectivity and inconsistency in multi- media similarity, we develop graph-based techniques to filter similarity measurements, resulting in a simplified and robust training procedure.

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@article{arxiv.1008.5163,
  title  = {Learning Multi-modal Similarity},
  author = {Brian McFee and Gert Lanckriet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.5163},
  year   = {2010}
}
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