Real time google and live image search re-ranking

  • Authors:
  • Jingyu Cui;Fang Wen;Xiaoou Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Nowadays, web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google, Live Image Search) rely almost purely on surrounding text features. This leads to ambiguous and noisy results. We propose to use adaptive visual similarity to re-rank the text-based search results. A query image is first categorized into one of several predefined intention categories, and a specific similarity measure is used inside each category to combine image features for re-ranking based on the query image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that using this algorithm to filter output of Google and Live Image Search is a practical and effective way to dramatically improve the user experience. A real-time image search engine is developed for on-line image search with re-ranking: http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/intentsearch