185 research outputs found
Evaluation of Hashing Methods Performance on Binary Feature Descriptors
In this paper we evaluate performance of data-dependent hashing methods on
binary data. The goal is to find a hashing method that can effectively produce
lower dimensional binary representation of 512-bit FREAK descriptors. A
representative sample of recent unsupervised, semi-supervised and supervised
hashing methods was experimentally evaluated on large datasets of labelled
binary FREAK feature descriptors
A General Two-Step Approach to Learning-Based Hashing
Most existing approaches to hashing apply a single form of hash function, and
an optimization process which is typically deeply coupled to this specific
form. This tight coupling restricts the flexibility of the method to respond to
the data, and can result in complex optimization problems that are difficult to
solve. Here we propose a flexible yet simple framework that is able to
accommodate different types of loss functions and hash functions. This
framework allows a number of existing approaches to hashing to be placed in
context, and simplifies the development of new problem-specific hashing
methods. Our framework decomposes hashing learning problem into two steps: hash
bit learning and hash function learning based on the learned bits. The first
step can typically be formulated as binary quadratic problems, and the second
step can be accomplished by training standard binary classifiers. Both problems
have been extensively studied in the literature. Our extensive experiments
demonstrate that the proposed framework is effective, flexible and outperforms
the state-of-the-art.Comment: 13 pages. Appearing in Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV) 201
The Power of Asymmetry in Binary Hashing
When approximating binary similarity using the hamming distance between short
binary hashes, we show that even if the similarity is symmetric, we can have
shorter and more accurate hashes by using two distinct code maps. I.e. by
approximating the similarity between and as the hamming distance
between and , for two distinct binary codes , rather than as
the hamming distance between and .Comment: Accepted to NIPS 2013, 9 pages, 5 figure
SADIH: Semantic-Aware DIscrete Hashing
Due to its low storage cost and fast query speed, hashing has been recognized
to accomplish similarity search in large-scale multimedia retrieval
applications. Particularly supervised hashing has recently received
considerable research attention by leveraging the label information to preserve
the pairwise similarities of data points in the Hamming space. However, there
still remain two crucial bottlenecks: 1) the learning process of the full
pairwise similarity preservation is computationally unaffordable and unscalable
to deal with big data; 2) the available category information of data are not
well-explored to learn discriminative hash functions. To overcome these
challenges, we propose a unified Semantic-Aware DIscrete Hashing (SADIH)
framework, which aims to directly embed the transformed semantic information
into the asymmetric similarity approximation and discriminative hashing
function learning. Specifically, a semantic-aware latent embedding is
introduced to asymmetrically preserve the full pairwise similarities while
skillfully handle the cumbersome n times n pairwise similarity matrix.
Meanwhile, a semantic-aware autoencoder is developed to jointly preserve the
data structures in the discriminative latent semantic space and perform data
reconstruction. Moreover, an efficient alternating optimization algorithm is
proposed to solve the resulting discrete optimization problem. Extensive
experimental results on multiple large-scale datasets demonstrate that our
SADIH can clearly outperform the state-of-the-art baselines with the additional
benefit of lower computational costs.Comment: Accepted by The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-19
Optimizing Ranking Measures for Compact Binary Code Learning
Hashing has proven a valuable tool for large-scale information retrieval.
Despite much success, existing hashing methods optimize over simple objectives
such as the reconstruction error or graph Laplacian related loss functions,
instead of the performance evaluation criteria of interest---multivariate
performance measures such as the AUC and NDCG. Here we present a general
framework (termed StructHash) that allows one to directly optimize multivariate
performance measures. The resulting optimization problem can involve
exponentially or infinitely many variables and constraints, which is more
challenging than standard structured output learning. To solve the StructHash
optimization problem, we use a combination of column generation and
cutting-plane techniques. We demonstrate the generality of StructHash by
applying it to ranking prediction and image retrieval, and show that it
outperforms a few state-of-the-art hashing methods.Comment: Appearing in Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision 201
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