Positive Sample Enhanced Angle-Diversity Active Learning for SVM Based Image Retrieval

Jin Yuan, Xiangdong Zhou, Junqi Zhang, Mei Wang, Qi Zhang, Wei Wang, Baile Shi

Abstract: Active learning is a promising tool to improve the performance of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). As a commonly used active learning approach, angle-diversity provides the most informative images to user for feedback. However, it suffers from the problem that the query concept is diverse and the numbers of the positive and the negative images are imbalanced. As a consequence, the positive samples obtained by active learning are inadequate, which degrades the learning efficiency. To deal with this issue, we propose a novel method based on angle-diversity and hyperplane shifting to increase the number of positive images in the active learning results. The experiment is conducted on a test data set with 10,000 images. Compared with the traditional angle-diversity technique, our method can improve the retrieval performance significantly.