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Summary
Video and image retrieval has been an active
and challenging research area thanks to the continuing growth of online video data.
Current successful semantic video search approaches usually build upon text search
against text associated with the video content, such as speech transcripts, closed
captions, and video OCR text. The additional use of other available modalities such
as image content, audio, face detection, and high-level concept detection has been
shown to improve upon the text-based video search systems. However, such approaches
require intensive training and might complicate the system too much.
In this project, to ease the problems of example-based approaches and avoid highly-tuned
specific models, we propose a novel and generic video/image reranking algorithm,
IB reranking, which reorders results from text-only searches by discovering the
salient visual patterns of relevant and irrelevant shots from the approximate relevance
provided by text results, as illustrated in the following figure. The IB reranking
method, based on a rigorous Information Bottleneck (IB) principle, finds the optimal
clustering of images that preserves the maximal mutual information between the search
relevance and the high-dimensional low-level visual features of the images in the
text search results.
Evaluating the approach on the TRECVID 2003-2005 data sets shows significant improvement
upon the text search baseline, with relative increases in average performance of
up to 23%. The method requires no image search examples from the user, but is competitive
with other state-of-the-art example-based approaches. The method is also highly
generic and performs comparably with sophisticated models which are highly tuned
for specific classes of queries, such as named-persons. Our experimental analysis
has also confirmed the proposed reranking method works well when there exist sufficient
recurrent visual patterns in the search results, as often the case in multi-source
news videos.
The illustration of the proposed visual reranking process which tries to improve
the visual documents (i.e., web documents, images, videos, etc.) from initial search
results. This proposed approach explores the fact that often in image search there
are multiple similar images spreading over different spots in the top pages of the
initial text search results. The approach revises the search relevance scores
to favor those images that occur multiple times with high visual similarity and
have high initial text retrieval scores.
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Publication
Hsu, W.H.; Kennedy, L.S.; Shih-Fu Chang. Reranking Methods for Visual Search. In IEEE Multimedia, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 14-22, 2007. (PDF)
Winston Hsu, Lyndon Kennedy, Shih-Fu Chang. Video Search Reranking via Information
Bottleneck Principle. In ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2006. (PDF)
Winston Hsu, Shih-Fu Chang. Visual Cue Cluster Construction via Information Bottleneck
Principle and Kernel Density Estimation. In International Conference on Content-Based
Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Singapore, 2005. (PDF)
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