Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging

MM'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Multimedia Conference, with Co-located Workshops and Symposiums

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-144

  Wu, Lei ^a,b   Hoi, Steven C H ^a   Jin, Rong ^c   Zhu, Jianke ^d   Yu, Nenghai ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automated photo tagging; Distance metric learning; Uncertain side information

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; DISTANCE METRICS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; IMAGE ANNOTATION; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; PROBABILISTIC DISTANCE METRIC; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SEMANTIC GAP; SIDE INFORMATION; SIMILAR IMAGE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TEST IMAGES; TEXT SEARCH; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; VISUAL SIMILARITY; WEB IMAGES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EDUCATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 72449130482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1631272.1631293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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