Presentation 2011-02-17
Automatic Image Annotation by Variational Random Forests
Motofumi FUKUI, Noriji KATO, Wenyuan QI,
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Abstract(in English) Recently automatic image annotation (AIA) receives a lot of attention in the fields of information retrieval, and many ideas have been proposed over this decades. Semantic Multi-Class Labeling (SML) is the representative example, based on a Naive Bayes classifier with local image features whose existing probabilities are estimated by gaussian mixture models. However there is such a difficult problem that SML requires its long training time and annotation time, when a posterior distribution of each label is estimated. To deal with this problem, instead of gaussian mixture models, we introduce a Random Forest classifier into the AIA task. We have evaluated our method by using a standard image corpus. We show that the speed of annotating by our method is about 50 times faster than by SML, with maintaining the same performance as the existing ideas.
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Keyword(in English) Image Processing / Automatic Image Annotation / Image Retrieval / Random Forest / Generative Model
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Conference Date 2011/2/10(1days)
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Title (in English) Automatic Image Annotation by Variational Random Forests
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Keyword(1) Image Processing
Keyword(2) Automatic Image Annotation
Keyword(3) Image Retrieval
Keyword(4) Random Forest
Keyword(5) Generative Model
1st Author's Name Motofumi FUKUI
1st Author's Affiliation Corporate Research & Technology Group, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.()
2nd Author's Name Noriji KATO
2nd Author's Affiliation Corporate Research & Technology Group, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
3rd Author's Name Wenyuan QI
3rd Author's Affiliation Corporate Research & Technology Group, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Date 2011-02-17
Paper # PRMU2010-209
Volume (vol) vol.110
Number (no) 414
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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