Title
Semi-supervised Hashing with Semantic Confidence for Large Scale Visual Search
Abstract
Similarity search is one of the fundamental problems for large scale multimedia applications. Hashing techniques, as one popular strategy, have been intensively investigated owing to the speed and memory efficiency. Recent research has shown that leveraging supervised information can lead to high quality hashing. However, most existing supervised methods learn hashing function by treating each training example equally while ignoring the different semantic degree related to the label, i.e. semantic confidence, of different examples. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised hashing framework by leveraging semantic confidence. Specifically, a confidence factor is first assigned to each example by neighbor voting and click count in the scenarios with label and click-through data, respectively. Then, the factor is incorporated into the pairwise and triplet relationship learning for hashing. Furthermore, the two learnt relationships are seamlessly encoded into semi-supervised hashing methods with pairwise and listwise supervision respectively, which are formulated as minimizing empirical error on the labeled data while maximizing the variance of hash bits or minimizing quantization loss over both the labeled and unlabeled data. In addition, the kernelized variant of semi-supervised hashing is also presented. We have conducted experiments on both CIFAR-10 (with label) and Clickture (with click data) image benchmarks (up to one million image examples), demonstrating that our approaches outperform the state-of-the-art hashing techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2766462.2767725
International Conference on Research an Development in Information Retrieval
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hashing,similarity learning,neighbor voting,semi-supervised hashing,click-through data
Data mining,Double hashing,Computer science,Universal hashing,Feature hashing,Artificial intelligence,Locality-sensitive hashing,Information retrieval,Pattern recognition,K-independent hashing,Hash function,Dynamic perfect hashing,Machine learning,Hash table
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
0.73
28
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingwei Pan135723.66
Ting Yao284252.62
Houqiang Li32090172.30
C. W. Ngo44271211.46
Tao Mei54702288.54