MQSearch: image search by multi-class query

Image search is becoming prevalent in web search as the number of digital photos grows exponentially on the internet. For a successful image search system, removing outliers in the top ranked results is a challenging task. Typical content based image search engines take an input image from one class as a query and compute relevance between the query and images in a database. The results often contain a large number of outliers, since these outliers may be similar to the query image in some way. In this paper we present a novel search scheme using query images from multiple classes. Instead of conducting query search for one image class at a time, we conduct multi-class query search jointly. By using several query classes that are similar to each other for multi-class query, we can utilize information across similar classes to fine tune the similarity measure to remove outliers. This strategy can be used for any information search application. In this work, we use content based image s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Yiwen Luo, Wei Liu, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
• Keywords: CHI 2008, Human Computer Interaction, Multi-class Query Search, Query Image, Successful Image Search