Title
Image Search Reranking With Hierarchical Topic Awareness
Abstract
With much attention from both academia and industrial communities, visual search reranking has recently been proposed to refine image search results obtained from text-based image search engines. Most of the traditional reranking methods cannot capture both relevance and diversity of the search results at the same time. Or they ignore the hierarchical topic structure of search result. Each topic is treated equally and independently. However, in real applications, images returned for certain queries are naturally in hierarchical organization, rather than simple parallel relation. In this paper, a new reranking method “topic-aware reranking (TARerank)” is proposed. TARerank describes the hierarchical topic structure of search results in one model, and seamlessly captures both relevance and diversity of the image search results simultaneously. Through a structured learning framework, relevance and diversity are modeled in TARerank by a set of carefully designed features, and then the model is learned from human-labeled training samples. The learned model is expected to predict reranking results with high relevance and diversity for testing queries. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we collect an image search dataset and conduct comparison experiments on it. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed TARerank outperforms the existing relevance-based and diversified reranking methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TCYB.2014.2366740
IEEE Trans. Cybernetics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image search reranking, relevance, topic coverage (TC), topic-aware reranking (TARerank)
Visual search,Topic structure,Search engine,Information retrieval,Computer science,Visualization,Structured prediction,Artificial intelligence,Semantics,Machine learning,Hierarchical organization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
2168-2267
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
42
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinmie Tian148738.43
Linjun Yang2155665.20
Yijuan Lu373246.24
Qi Tian46443331.75
Dacheng Tao519032747.78