Fundamental Visual Concept Learning from Correlated Images and Text

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Youtian DuXin Huang

Abstract

Heterogeneous web media consists of many visual concepts, such as objects, scenes and activities, that cannot be semantically decomposed. The task of learning fundamental visual concepts (FVCs) plays an important role in automatically understanding the elements that compose all visual media, as well as in applications of retrieval, annotation, etc. In this paper, we formulate the problem of FVC learning and propose an approach to this problem called neighboring concept distributing (NCD). Our approach models all data using a concept graph, which considers the visual patches in images as nodes and generates the inter-image edges between visual patches in different images and the intra-image edges between visual patches in the same image. The NCD approach distributes semantic information from images to visual patches based on measurements over the concept graph, including fitness, distinctiveness, smoothness and sparseness, without any pre-trained concept detectors or classifiers. We analyze the learnability of the proposed approach and find that, under some conditions, all concepts can be correctly learned with an arbitrarily high probability as the size of the data increases.We demonstrate the performance of the NCD approach us...Continue Reading

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