Facilitating Image Search with a Scalable and Compact Semantic Mapping

• Main Authors: WANG, Meng, Li, Weisheng, Liu, Dong, Ni, Bingbing, SHEN, Jialie, YAN, Shuicheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Compact semantic mapping (CSM); image search; semantic gap; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2463; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3462/viewcontent/FacilitatingImageSearch.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper introduces a novel approach to facilitating image search based on a compact semantic embedding. A novel method is developed to explicitly map concepts and image contents into a unified latent semantic space for the representation of semantic concept prototypes. Then, a linear embedding ma...