Visual aspect: a unified content-based collaborative filtering model for visual document recommendation

  • Authors:
  • Sabri Boutemedjet;Djemel Ziou

  • Affiliations:
  • DI, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada;DI, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a generative graphical model (VC-Aspect) for filtering visual documents such as images. The proposed VC-Aspect extends the well-known Aspect model and combines both content based and collaborative filtering approaches in a unified framework. Instead of considering item indices in the model such as model-based collaborative filtering techniques, we use visual features in describing visual documents. This allows the model to predict ratings for new visual documents with the same set of parameters. Experimental results show the usefulness of such an approach in a real life application such as the content based image retrieval.