One-class SVM for learning in image retrieval

Y. Chen, X. S. Zhou, T. S. Huang

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Abstract

Relevance feedback schemes using linear/quadratic estimators have been applied in content-based image retrieval to significantly improve retrieval performance. One major difficulty in relevance feedback is to estimate the support of target images in high dimensional feature space with a relatively small number of training samples. In this paper, we develop a novel scheme based on one-class SVM, which fits a tight hyper-sphere in the nonlinearly transformed feature space to include most of the target images based on the positive examples. The use of kernel provides us an elegant way to deal with nonlinearity in the distribution of the target images, while the regularization term in SVM provides good generalization ability. To validate the efficacy of the proposed approach, we test it on both synthesized data and real-world images. Promising results are achieved in both cases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages34-37
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2001 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: Oct 7 2001Oct 10 2001

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2001
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period10/7/0110/10/01

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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