A discriminative approach for the retrieval of images from text queries

  • Authors:
  • David Grangier;Florent Monay;Samy Bengio

  • Affiliations:
  • IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland;IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland;IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ECML'06 Proceedings of the 17th European conference on Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This work proposes a new approach to the retrieval of images from text queries. Contrasting with previous work, this method relies on a discriminative model: the parameters are selected in order to minimize a loss related to the ranking performance of the model, i.e. its ability to rank the relevant pictures above the non-relevant ones when given a text query. In order to minimize this loss, we introduce an adaptation of the recently proposed Passive-Aggressive algorithm. The generalization performance of this approach is then compared with alternative models over the Corel dataset. These experiments show that our method outperforms the current state-of-the-art approaches, e.g. the average precision over Corel test data is 21.6% for our model versus 16.7% for the best alternative, Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis.