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A Unified Log-based Relevance Feedback Scheme for Image Retrieval
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Steven HOI, Singapore Management University
  • Michael R. LYU, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Rong JIN, Michigan State University
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2006
Abstract

Relevance feedback has emerged as a powerful tool to boost the retrieval performance in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). In the past, most research efforts in this field have focused on designing effective algorithms for traditional relevance feedback. Given that a CBIR system can collect and store users' relevance feedback information in a history log, an image retrieval system should be able to take advantage of the log data of users' feedback to enhance its retrieval performance. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for log-based relevance feedback that integrates the log of feedback data into the traditional relevance feedback schemes to learn effectively the correlation between low-level image features and high-level concepts. Given the error-prone nature of log data, we present a novel learning technique, named Soft Label Support Vector Machine, to tackle the noisy data problem. Extensive experiments are designed and conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithms based on the COREL image data set. The promising experimental results validate the effectiveness of our log-based relevance feedback scheme empirically.

Keywords
  • Content-based image retrieval,
  • log data,
  • log-based relevance feedback,
  • relevance feedback,
  • semantic gap,
  • support vector machines.,
  • user issues
Identifier
10.1109/TKDE.2006.1599389
Publisher
IEEE
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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2006.1599389
Citation Information
Steven HOI, Michael R. LYU and Rong JIN. "A Unified Log-based Relevance Feedback Scheme for Image Retrieval" IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Vol. 18 Iss. 4 (2006) p. 509 - 524 ISSN: 1041-4347
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/steven-hoi/5/