Title
Large scale product search with spatial quantization and deep ranking
Abstract
Product image search aims to retrieve similar product images based on a query image. While deep learning based features work well in retrieving images of the same category (e.g. “searching for T-shirts from all the clothing images”), they perform poorly when retrieving variants of images within the same category (e.g. “searching for uniform of Chelsea football club from all T-shirts image”), since it requires fine-grained matching on image details. In this paper, we present a spatial quantization approach that utilizes spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) and vector of locally aggregated descriptors (VLAD) to extract more discriminative features for instance-aware product search. By using the proposed spatial quantization, spatial information is encoded into the image feature to improve the fine grained product image search. We also present an triplet learning to rank method to finetune the deep learning model on product image search task. Finally, the experiments conducted on a large scale real world dataset provided by Alibaba large-scale image search challenge (ALISC) demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11042-017-4739-1
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deep learning,Product image retrieval,Salient region detection,Spatial quantization,Triplet metric learning
Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Learning to rank,Ranking,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Pooling,Pyramid,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Quantization (signal processing),Discriminative model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78.0
19
13807501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
37
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuhan Qi13814.95
Zawlin Kyaw231.71
Xuan Wang329157.12
Zoe L. Jiang410017.59
Guan Jian583.69