Indexed by:会议论文

Date of Publication:2011-11-19

Included Journals:EI、Scopus

Abstract:Image annotation is a challenging problem due to the rapid growing of real world image archives. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the solving of this problem based on a variant of the support vector clustering (SVC) algorithm, i.e., the support vector description of clusters. The system has two major components, the training process and the annotating process. In the training process, clusters of image manually annotated by descriptive words are used as training instances. Each cluster is described by a one-cluster SVC model. The proposed model can exploit the advantage of SVC for its ability to delineate cluster boundaries of arbitrary shape. Moreover, the training process of the one-cluster SVC model is formulated as the process of building density estimator for underlying distribution of the cluster. In the annotating process, for a test image, the probability of this instance being generated by each model is computed. And then the relevant words are selected based on the obtained probabilities. Simulated experiments were conducted on the Corel60k data set. The results demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm, compared with the performance of other algorithms.