Image classification using the web graph

  • Authors:
  • Dhruv Kumar Mahajan;Malcolm Slaney

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo , Bangalore, India;Yahoo, Santa Clara, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Image classification is a well-studied and hard problem in computer vision. We extend a proven solution for classifying web spam to handle images. We exploit the link structure of the web graph: a web page related to a given category is normally linked to other pages describing related objects. Our approach combines information from the webgraph structure with semi-supervised learning from all the unlabeled images to create a superior image-classification model for multimedia data. We show that fusing image, text and web-graph features gives a 12% improvement (in the area under the ROC curve) over content features alone in an adult image-classification experiment.