On the pooling of positive examples with ontology for visual concept learning

• Main Authors: ZHU, Shiai, NGO, Chong-wah, JIANG, Yu-Gang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Semantic pooling; Training set construction; Visual concepts; Data Storage Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6520; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7523/viewcontent/2072298.2071934.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A common obstacle in effective learning of visual concept classifiers is the scarcity of positive training examples due to expensive labeling cost. This paper explores the sampling of weakly tagged web images for concept learning without human assistance. In particular, ontology knowledge is incorpo...