Title
Contextual Similarity Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
Abstract
Asymmetric image retrieval, which typically uses small model for query side and large model for database server, is an effective solution for resource-constrained scenarios. However, existing approaches either fail to achieve feature coherence or make strong assumptions, e.g., requiring labeled datasets or classifiers from large model, etc., which limits their practical application. To this end, we propose a flexible contextual similarity distillation framework to enhance the small query model and keep its output feature compatible with that of the large gallery model, which is crucial with asymmetric retrieval. In our approach, we learn the small model with a new contextual similarity consistency constraint without any data label. During the small model learning, it preserves the contextual similarity among each training image and its neighbors with the features extracted by the large model. Note that this simple constraint is consistent with simultaneous first-order feature vector preserving and second-order ranking list preserving. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the Revisited Oxford and Paris datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00927
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Recognition: detection,categorization,retrieval
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Wu102.03
Min Wang2124.21
Wengang Zhou3122679.31
Houqiang Li42090172.30
Qi Tian56443331.75