1. Large margin learning of hierarchical semantic similarity for image classification
- Author
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Kyoung Mu Lee and Ju Yong Chang
- Subjects
Optimization problem ,Contextual image classification ,Hierarchy (mathematics) ,business.industry ,Pattern recognition ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,Semantic similarity ,Similarity (network science) ,Margin (machine learning) ,Semantic computing ,Signal Processing ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer ,Software ,Similarity learning ,Mathematics - Abstract
Novel large margin formulation for semantic similarity learning.Efficient optimization algorithm to solve the proposed semi-definite program (SDP).Thorough experimental study to compare the performances of several algorithms for hierarchical image classification.State-of-the-art classification performance under the hierarchical-loss criterion. In the present paper, a novel image classification method that uses the hierarchical structure of categories to produce more semantic prediction is presented. This implies that our algorithm may not yield a correct prediction, but the result is likely to be semantically close to the right category. Therefore, the proposed method is able to provide a more informative classification result. The main idea of our method is twofold. First, it uses semantic representation, instead of low-level image features, enabling the construction of high-level constraints that exploit the relationship among semantic concepts in the category hierarchy. Second, from such constraints, an optimization problem is formulated to learn a semantic similarity function in a large-margin framework. This similarity function is then used to classify test images. Experimental results demonstrate that our method provides effective classification results for various real-image datasets.
- Published
- 2015