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Incremental learning of independent, overlapping, and graded concept descriptions with an instance-based process framework
Supervised learning algorithms make several simplifying assumptions concerning the characteristics of the concept descriptions to be learned. For example, concepts are often assumed to be (1) defined with respect to the same set of relevant attributes, (2) disjoint in instance space, and (3) have uniform instance distributions. While these assumptions constrain the learning task, they unfortunately limit an algorithm's applicability. We believe that supervised learning algorithms should learn attribute relevancies independently for each concept, allow instances to be members of any subset of concepts, and represent graded concept descriptions. This paper introduces a process framework for instance-based learning algorithms that exploit only specific instance and performance feedback information to guide their concept learning processes. We also introduce Bloom, a specific instantiation of this framework. Bloom is a supervised, incremental, instance-based learning algorithm that learns relative attribute relevancies independently for each concept, allows instances to be members of any subset of concepts, and represents graded concept memberships. We describe empirical evidence to support our claims that Bloom can learn independent, overlapping, and graded concept descriptions
Fusing MPEG-7 visual descriptors for image classification
This paper proposes three content-based image classification techniques based on fusing various low-level MPEG-7 visual descriptors. Fusion is necessary as descriptors would be otherwise incompatible and inappropriate to directly include e.g. in a Euclidean distance. Three approaches are described: A “merging” fusion combined with an SVM classifier, a back-propagation fusion combined with a KNN classifier and a Fuzzy-ART neurofuzzy network. In the latter case, fuzzy rules can be extracted in an effort to bridge the “semantic gap” between the low-level descriptors and the high-level semantics of an image. All networks were evaluated using content from the repository of the aceMedia project1 and more specifically in a beach/urban scene classification problem
Context-aware Captions from Context-agnostic Supervision
We introduce an inference technique to produce discriminative context-aware
image captions (captions that describe differences between images or visual
concepts) using only generic context-agnostic training data (captions that
describe a concept or an image in isolation). For example, given images and
captions of "siamese cat" and "tiger cat", we generate language that describes
the "siamese cat" in a way that distinguishes it from "tiger cat". Our key
novelty is that we show how to do joint inference over a language model that is
context-agnostic and a listener which distinguishes closely-related concepts.
We first apply our technique to a justification task, namely to describe why an
image contains a particular fine-grained category as opposed to another
closely-related category of the CUB-200-2011 dataset. We then study
discriminative image captioning to generate language that uniquely refers to
one of two semantically-similar images in the COCO dataset. Evaluations with
discriminative ground truth for justification and human studies for
discriminative image captioning reveal that our approach outperforms baseline
generative and speaker-listener approaches for discrimination.Comment: Accepted to CVPR 2017 (Spotlight
Survey of data mining approaches to user modeling for adaptive hypermedia
The ability of an adaptive hypermedia system to create tailored environments depends mainly on the amount and accuracy of information stored in each user model. Some of the difficulties that user modeling faces are the amount of data available to create user models, the adequacy of the data, the noise within that data, and the necessity of capturing the imprecise nature of human behavior. Data mining and machine learning techniques have the ability to handle large amounts of data and to process uncertainty. These characteristics make these techniques suitable for automatic generation of user models that simulate human decision making. This paper surveys different data mining techniques that can be used to efficiently and accurately capture user behavior. The paper also presents guidelines that show which techniques may be used more efficiently according to the task implemented by the applicatio
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