Cross-media hashing with kernel regression

Cross-media retrieval is a challenging problem in multimedia retrieval area. In the real-world, many applications involve multi-modal data, e.g., web pages containing both images and texts. How to utilize the intrinsic intra-modality and inter-modality similarity to learn the appropriate relationships of the data objects and provide efficient search across different modalities is the core of cross-media retrieval. Inspired by the fact that hashing methods well address the fast retrieval problem in the large-scale data settings, designing a cross-media hashing approach which can perform efficient retrieval over heterogenous high-dimensional feature spaces is highly desirable. In this paper, we propose a cross-media hashing approach based on kernel regression (abbreviated as KRCMH) to obtain the hash codes for the data objects across different modalities. The experiments on two real-world data sets show that KRCMH achieves superior cross-media retrieval performance comparing with the state-of-the-art methods