Image retrieval and annotation using maximum entropy

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Deselaers;Tobias Weyand;Hermann Ney

  • Affiliations:
  • Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present and discuss our participation in the four tasks of the ImageCLEF 2006 Evaluation. In particular, we present a novel approach to learn feature weights in our content-based image retrieval system FIRE. Given a set of training images with known relevance among each other, the retrieval task is reformulated as a classification task and then the weights to combine a set of features are trained discriminatively using the maximum entropy framework. Experimental results for the medical retrieval task show large improvements over heuristically chosen weights. Furthermore the maximum entropy approach is used for the automatic image annotation tasks in combination with a part-based object model. Using our object classification methods, we obtained the best results in the medical and in the object annotation task.