Title
Cross-media retrieval by intra-media and inter-media correlation mining
Abstract
With the rapid development of multimedia content on the Internet, cross-media retrieval has become a key problem in both research and application. Cross-media retrieval is able to retrieve the results of the same semantics with the query, but with different media types. For instance, given a query image of Moraine Lake, besides retrieving the images about Moraine Lake, cross-media retrieval system can also retrieve the related media contents of different media types such as text description. As a result, measuring content similarity between different media is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-media similarity measure. It considers both intra-media and inter-media correlation, which are ignored by existing works. Intra-media correlation focuses on semantic category information within each media, while inter-media correlation focuses on positive and negative correlations between different media types. Both of them are very important and their adaptive fusion can complement each other. To mine the intra-media correlation, we propose a heterogeneous similarity measure with nearest neighbors (HSNN). The heterogeneous similarity is obtained by computing the probability for two media objects belonging to the same semantic category. To mine the inter-media correlation, we propose a cross-media correlation propagation (CMCP) approach to simultaneously deal with positive and negative correlation between media objects of different media types, while existing works focus solely on the positive correlation. Negative correlation is very important because it provides effective exclusive information. The correlations are modeled as must-link constraints and cannot-link constraints, respectively. Furthermore, our approach is able to propagate the correlation between heterogeneous modalities. Finally, both HSNN and CMCP are flexible, so that any traditional similarity measure could be incorporated. An effective ranking model is learned by further fusion of multiple similarity measures through AdaRank for cross-media retrieval. The experimental results on two datasets show the effectiveness of our proposed approach, compared with state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s00530-012-0297-6
Multimedia Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
cross-media retrieval,heterogeneous similarity measure,inter-media correlation,intra-media correlation
Data mining,Negative correlation,Information retrieval,Ranking,Similarity measure,Computer science,Cross media,Correlation,Positive correlation,Multimedia,Semantics,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
5
1432-1882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.56
29
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaohua Zhai120913.00
Yuxin Peng2112274.90
Jianguo Xiao377149.67