Learning global and regional features for photo annotation

  • Authors:
  • Jiquan Ngiam;Hanlin Goh

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'09 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cross-language evaluation forum: multimedia experiments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a method that learns a variety of features to perform photo annotation. We introduce concept-specific regional features and combine them with global features. The regional features were extracted through a novel region selection algorithm based on Multiple Instance Learning. Supervised classification for photo annotation was learned using Support Vector Machines with extended Gaussian Kernels over the χ2 distance, together with a simple greedy feature selection. The method was evaluated using the ImageCLEF 2009 Photo Annotation task and competitive benchmarking results were achieved.