Title
An automatic feature generation approach to multiple instance learning and its applications to image databases
Abbreviated Journal Title
Multimed. Tools Appl.
Keywords
Image categorization; Multiple-instance learning; Instance-level; clustering; Category pattern mining; Pattern feature generation; Bag-pattern distance; Multi-class classification; Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Software; Engineering; Computer Science, Theory & Methods; Engineering, Electrical; & Electronic
Abstract
Automatic content-based image categorization is a challenging research topic and has many practical applications. Images are usually represented as bags of feature vectors, and the categorization problem is studied in the Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) framework. In this paper, we propose a novel learning technique which transforms the MIL problem into a standard supervised learning problem by defining a feature vector for each image bag. Specifically, the feature vectors of the image bags are grouped into clusters and each cluster is given a label. Using these labels, each instance of an image bag can be replaced by a corresponding label to obtain a bag of cluster labels. Data mining can then be employed to uncover common label patterns for each image category. These label patterns are converted into bags of feature vectors; and they are used to transform each image bag in the data set into a feature vector such that each vector element is the distance of the image bag to a distinct pattern bag. With this new image representation, standard supervised learning algorithms can be applied to classify the images into the pre-defined categories. Our experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed technique in categorization accuracy as compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Journal Title
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Volume
47
Issue/Number
3
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
507
Last Page
524
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1380-7501
Recommended Citation
"An automatic feature generation approach to multiple instance learning and its applications to image databases" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 28.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/28
Comments
Authors: contact us about adding a copy of your work at STARS@ucf.edu