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Object-Based Aggregation of Deep Features for Image Retrieval

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MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2017)

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In content-based visual image retrieval, image representation is one of the fundamental issues in improving retrieval performance. Recently Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features have shown their great success as a universal representation. However, the deep CNN features lack invariance to geometric transformations and object compositions, which limits their robustness for scene image retrieval. Since a scene image always is composed of multiple objects which are crucial components to understand and describe the scene, in this paper we propose an object-based aggregation method over the CNN features for obtaining an invariant and compact image representation for image retrieval. The proposed method represents an image through VLAD pooling of CNN features describing the underlying objects, which make the representation robust to spatial layout of objects in the scene and invariant to general geometric transformations. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on three public ground-truth datasets by comparing with state-of-the-art approaches and promising improvements have been achieved.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Funds of China (61472059, 61428202).

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    Yu Bao & Haojie Li

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  5. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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Bao, Y., Li, H. (2017). Object-Based Aggregation of Deep Features for Image Retrieval. In: Amsaleg, L., Guðmundsson, G., Gurrin, C., Jónsson, B., Satoh, S. (eds) MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51811-4_39

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