WillHunter: Interactive Image Retrieval with Multilevel Relevance Measurement

  • Authors:
  • Hong Wu;Hanqing Lu;Songde Ma

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences;Chinese Academy of Sciences;Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 2 - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Relevance feedback has become a key component in CBIR system. Although most current relevance feedback approaches are based on dichotomous relevance measurement, this coarse measurement is a distortion of the reality. We study relevance feedback with multi-level relevance measurement to better identify the user needs and preferences. To validate the use of multi-level relevance measurement and our relevance feedback algorithm, we developed a CBIR prototype system - WillHunter.There are two novelties in our system, one is our SVM-based fast learning algorithm; another is the easy-to-use graphical user interface, especially the relevance-measuring instrument. Not only experiments are conducted to assess the algorithm, but also usability study is carried out to evaluate the user interface.