A Feature Learning Approach for Image Retrieval

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Abstract

Extraction of effective image features is the key to the content-based image retrieval task. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have been widely used in learning image features and have achieved top results. Based on CNNs, metric learning methods like contrastive loss and triplet loss have been proved effective in learning discriminative image features. In this paper, we propose a new supervised signal to train convolutional neural networks. This step could ensure that the features obtained are well differentiated in space, which is very suitable for image retrieval task. We give an example on MNIST to illustrate the intent of this loss function. Also, we evaluate our method on two datasets including CUB-200-2011, CARS196. The experimental results show that the retrieval effect is fairly good on this two datasets. Besides, our loss function is much easier to implement and train.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 24th International Conference, ICONIP 2017, Proceedings
EditorsDongbin Zhao, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Derong Liu, Shengli Xie, Yuanqing Li
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages405-412
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783319700953
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 14 Nov 201718 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10635 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period14/11/1718/11/17

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Image retrieval
  • Metric learning

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