Title
A fast approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm in the Hamming space.
Abstract
A fast approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm for the (binary) Hamming space is proposed. The proposed Error Weighted Hashing (EWH) algorithm is up to 20 times faster than the popular locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm and works well even for large nearest neighbor distances where LSH fails. EWH significantly reduces the number of candidate nearest neighbors by weighing them based on the difference between their hash vectors. EWH can be used for multimedia retrieval and copy detection systems that are based on binary fingerprinting. On a fingerprint database with more than 1,000 videos, for a specific detection accuracy, we demonstrate that EWH is more than 10 times faster than LSH. For the same retrieval time, we show that EWH has a significantly better detection accuracy with a 15 times lower error rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TPAMI.2012.170
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
hamming distance,image retrieval,nearest neighbor search,indexes,vectors,algorithm design and analysis,approximation algorithms
Locality-sensitive hashing,k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Approximation algorithm,Algorithm design,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Algorithm,Hamming distance,Hash function,Artificial intelligence,Hamming space,Nearest neighbor search
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
12
1939-3539
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
0.82
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mani Malekesmaeili1513.37
Rabab K Ward21440135.88
Mehrdad Fatourechi316911.96