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yu2014attribute

Felix X. Yu, Liangliang Cao, Michele Merler, Noel Codella, Tao Chen, John R. Smith, Shih-Fu Chang. Modeling Attributes from Category-Attribute Proportions. In ACM Multimedia, November 2014.

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Abstract

Attribute-based representation has been widely used in visual recognition and retrieval due to its interpretability and cross-category generalization properties. However, classic attribute learning requires manually labeling attributes on the images, which is very expensive, and not scalable. In this paper, we propose to model attributes from category-attribute proportions. The proposed framework can model attributes without attribute labels on the images. Specifically, given a multi-class image datasets with N categories, we model an attribute, based on an N-dimensional category-attribute proportion vector, where each element of the vector characterizes the proportion of images in the corresponding category having the attribute. The attribute learning can be formulated as a learning from label proportion (LLP) problem. Our method is based on a newly proposed machine learning algorithm called $\propto$SVM. Finding the category-attribute proportions is much easier than manually labeling images, but it is still not a trivial task. We further propose to estimate the proportions from multiple modalities such as human commonsense knowledge, NLP tools, and other domain knowledge. The value of the proposed approach is demonstrated by various applications including modeling animal attributes, visual sentiment attributes, and scene attributes

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@InProceedings{yu2014attribute,
   Author = {Yu, Felix X. and Cao, Liangliang and Merler, Michele and Codella, Noel and Chen, Tao and Smith, John R. and Chang, Shih-Fu},
   Title = {Modeling Attributes from Category-Attribute Proportions},
   BookTitle = {ACM Multimedia},
   Month = {November},
   Year = {2014}
}

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