Improving image annotation in imbalanced classification problems with ranking SVM

  • Authors:
  • Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi;Sabrina Tollari;Nicolas Usunier;Patrick Gallinari

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, UMR, CNRS, Paris, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, UMR, CNRS, Paris, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, UMR, CNRS, Paris, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, UMR, CNRS, Paris, France

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

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Abstract

We try to overcome the imbalanced data set problem in image annotation by choosing a convenient loss function for learning the classifier. Instead of training a standard SVM, we use a Ranking SVM in which the chosen loss function is helpful in the case of imbalanced data. We compare the Ranking SVM to a classical SVM with different visual features. We observe that Ranking SVM always improves the prediction quality, and can perform up to 23% better than the classical SVM.