Ordinal distance metric learning for image ranking

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1551-1559

  Li, Changsheng ^a   Liu, Qingshan ^b   Liu, Jing ^c   Lu, Hanqing ^c  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Distance metric learning (DML); image ranking; local geometry structure; ordinal relationship

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING; DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; IMAGE RANKINGS; LOCAL GEOMETRY; MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING; ORDINAL RELATIONSHIP; REAL-WORLD IMAGE DATA; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 85028219408     PISSN: 2162237X     EISSN: 21622388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2014.2339100     Document Type: Article

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