Harmonious hashing

  • Authors:
  • Bin Xu;Jiajun Bu;Yue Lin;Chun Chen;Xiaofei He;Deng Cai

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Service Robot, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Service Robot, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;State Key Lab of CAD&CG, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Service Robot, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;State Key Lab of CAD&CG, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China;State Key Lab of CAD&CG, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Hashing-based fast nearest neighbor search technique has attracted great attention in both research and industry areas recently. Many existing hashing approaches encode data with projection-based hash functions and represent each projected dimension by 1-bit. However, the dimensions with high variance hold large energy or information of data but treated equivalently as dimensions with low variance, which leads to a serious information loss. In this paper, we introduce a novel hashing algorithm called Harmonious Hashing which aims at learning hash functions with low information loss. Specifically, we learn a set of optimized projections to preserve the maximum cumulative energy and meet the constraint of equivalent variance on each dimension as much as possible. In this way, we could minimize the information loss after binarization. Despite the extreme simplicity, our method outperforms superiorly to many state-of-the-art hashing methods in large-scale and high-dimensional nearest neighbor search experiments.