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Physical Representation-based Predicate Optimization for a Visual Analytics Database
Querying the content of images, video, and other non-textual data sources
requires expensive content extraction methods. Modern extraction techniques are
based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and can classify objects
within images with astounding accuracy. Unfortunately, these methods are slow:
processing a single image can take about 10 milliseconds on modern GPU-based
hardware. As massive video libraries become ubiquitous, running a content-based
query over millions of video frames is prohibitive.
One promising approach to reduce the runtime cost of queries of visual
content is to use a hierarchical model, such as a cascade, where simple cases
are handled by an inexpensive classifier. Prior work has sought to design
cascades that optimize the computational cost of inference by, for example,
using smaller CNNs. However, we observe that there are critical factors besides
the inference time that dramatically impact the overall query time. Notably, by
treating the physical representation of the input image as part of our query
optimization---that is, by including image transforms, such as resolution
scaling or color-depth reduction, within the cascade---we can optimize data
handling costs and enable drastically more efficient classifier cascades.
In this paper, we propose Tahoma, which generates and evaluates many
potential classifier cascades that jointly optimize the CNN architecture and
input data representation. Our experiments on a subset of ImageNet show that
Tahoma's input transformations speed up cascades by up to 35 times. We also
find up to a 98x speedup over the ResNet50 classifier with no loss in accuracy,
and a 280x speedup if some accuracy is sacrificed.Comment: Camera-ready version of the paper submitted to ICDE 2019, In
Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
(ICDE 2019
Digital Image Access & Retrieval
The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio
Visual Search at eBay
In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end approach for scalable visual
search infrastructure. We discuss the challenges we faced for a massive
volatile inventory like at eBay and present our solution to overcome those. We
harness the availability of large image collection of eBay listings and
state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to perform visual search at scale.
Supervised approach for optimized search limited to top predicted categories
and also for compact binary signature are key to scale up without compromising
accuracy and precision. Both use a common deep neural network requiring only a
single forward inference. The system architecture is presented with in-depth
discussions of its basic components and optimizations for a trade-off between
search relevance and latency. This solution is currently deployed in a
distributed cloud infrastructure and fuels visual search in eBay ShopBot and
Close5. We show benchmark on ImageNet dataset on which our approach is faster
and more accurate than several unsupervised baselines. We share our learnings
with the hope that visual search becomes a first class citizen for all large
scale search engines rather than an afterthought.Comment: To appear in 23rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (KDD), 2017. A demonstration video can be found at
https://youtu.be/iYtjs32vh4
A Sub-block Based Image Retrieval Using Modified Integrated Region Matching
This paper proposes a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system using the
local colour and texture features of selected image sub-blocks and global
colour and shape features of the image. The image sub-blocks are roughly
identified by segmenting the image into partitions of different configuration,
finding the edge density in each partition using edge thresholding followed by
morphological dilation. The colour and texture features of the identified
regions are computed from the histograms of the quantized HSV colour space and
Gray Level Co- occurrence Matrix (GLCM) respectively. The colour and texture
feature vectors is computed for each region. The shape features are computed
from the Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD). A modified Integrated Region Matching
(IRM) algorithm is used for finding the minimum distance between the sub-blocks
of the query and target image. Experimental results show that the proposed
method provides better retrieving result than retrieval using some of the
existing methods.Comment: 7 page
The TREC-2002 video track report
TREC-2002 saw the second running of the Video Track, the goal of which was to promote progress in content-based retrieval from digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. The track used 73.3 hours of publicly available digital video (in MPEG-1/VCD format) downloaded by the participants directly from the Internet Archive (Prelinger Archives) (internetarchive, 2002) and some from the Open
Video Project (Marchionini, 2001). The material comprised advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films produced between the 1930's and the 1970's by corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, educational institutions, and individuals. 17 teams representing 5 companies and 12 universities - 4 from Asia, 9 from Europe, and 4 from the US - participated in one or more of three tasks in the 2001 video track: shot boundary determination, feature extraction, and search (manual or interactive). Results were scored by NIST using manually created truth data for shot boundary determination and manual assessment of feature extraction and search results. This paper is an introduction to, and an overview
of, the track framework - the tasks, data, and measures - the approaches taken by the participating groups, the results, and issues regrading the evaluation. For detailed information about the approaches and results, the reader should see the various site reports in the final workshop proceedings
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