Title
Efficient Large-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search On The Gpu
Abstract
We present a new approach for efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensional spaces, extending the idea of Product Quantization. We propose a two level product and vector quantization tree that reduces the number of vector comparisons required during tree traversal. Our approach also includes a novel highly parallelizable re-ranking method for candidate vectors by efficiently reusing already computed intermediate values. Due to its small memory footprint during traversal the method lends itself to an efficient, parallel GPU implementation. This Product Quantization Tree (PQT) approach significantly outperforms recent state of the art methods for high dimensional nearest neighbor queries on standard reference datasets. Ours is the first work that demonstrates GPU performance superior to CPU performance on high dimensional, large scale ANN problems in time-critical real-world applications, like loop-closing in videos.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CVPR.2016.223
2016 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
abs/1702.05911
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
7
0.52
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Wieschollek1263.21
Oliver Wang296952.27
Alexander Sorkine-Hornung3402.10
Hendrik P. A. Lensch4147196.59