Large-scale category structure aware image categorization

Bin Zhao, Li Fei-Fei, Eric P. Xing

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Abstract

Most previous research on image categorization has focused on medium-scale data sets, while large-scale image categorization with millions of images from thousands of categories remains a challenge. With the emergence of structured large-scale dataset such as the ImageNet, rich information about the conceptual relationships between images, such as a tree hierarchy among various image categories, become available. As human cognition of complex visual world benefits from underlying semantic relationships between object classes, we believe a machine learning system can and should leverage such information as well for better performance. In this paper, we employ such semantic relatedness among image categories for large-scale image categorization. Specifically, a category hierarchy is utilized to properly define loss function and select common set of features for related categories. An efficient optimization method based on proximal approximation and accelerated parallel gradient method is introduced. Experimental results on a subset of ImageNet containing 1.2 million images from 1000 categories demonstrate the effectiveness and promise of our proposed approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24
Subtitle of host publication25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011
PublisherNeural Information Processing Systems
ISBN (Print)9781618395993
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 12 Dec 201114 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24: 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011

Conference

Conference25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period12/12/1114/12/11

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