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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2005, Vol. 6 Issue (11): 15-    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2005.A1268
    
Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification
TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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Abstract  As the popularity of digital images is rapidly increasing on the Internet, research on technologies for semantic image classification has become an important research topic. However, the well-known content-based image classification methods do not overcome the so-called semantic gap problem in which low-level visual features cannot represent the high-level semantic content of images. Image classification using visual and textual information often performs poorly since the extracted textual features are often too limited to accurately represent the images. In this paper, we propose a semantic image classification approach using multi-context analysis. For a given image, we model the relevant textual information as its multi-modal context, and regard the related images connected by hyperlinks as its link context. Two kinds of context analysis models, i.e., cross-modal correlation analysis and link-based correlation model, are used to capture the correlation among different modals of features and the topical dependency among images induced by the link structure. We propose a new collective classification model called relational support vector classifier (RSVC) based on the well-known Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and the link-based correlation model. Experiments showed that the proposed approach significantly improved classification accuracy over that of SVM classifiers using visual and/or textual features.

Key wordsImage classification      Multi-context analysis      Cross-modal correlation analysis      Link-based correlation model      Linkage semantic kernels      Relational support vector classifier     
Received: 05 August 2005     
CLC:  TP391  
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TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen. Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2005, 6(11): 15-.

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