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Learning to detect concepts with Approximate Laplacian Eigenmaps in large-scale and online settings

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We present a versatile and effective manifold learning approach to tackle the concept detection problem in large-scale and online settings. We demonstrate that Approximate Laplacian Eigenmaps, which constitute a latent representation of the manifold underlying a set of images, offer a compact yet effective feature representation for the problem of concept detection. We expose the theoretical principles of the approach and present an extension that renders the approach applicable in online settings. We evaluate the approach on a number of well-known and two new datasets, coming from the social media domain, and demonstrate that it achieves equal or slightly better detection accuracy compared to supervised methods, while at the same time offering substantial speedup, enabling for instance the training of ten concept detectors using 1.5M images in just 3 min on a commodity server. We also explore a number of factors that affect the detection accuracy of the proposed approach, including the size of training set, the role of unlabelled samples in semi-supervised learning settings, and the performance of the approach across different concepts.

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Notes

  1. http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-multimedia-grand-challenge-solutions/yahoo-large-scale-flickr-tag-image-classification-challenge/.

  2. http://www.socialsensor.eu/datasets/mm-concept-detection-dataset-2013/mm-concept-detection-datasets.zip.

  3. http://www.socialsensor.eu/datasets/mm-concept-detection-dataset-2013/mm-concept-detection-twitter2013-images.zip.

  4. MiAP is also known as 11-points interpolated average precision. It is computed with the vl_pr() method of the vlfeat library, http://www.vlfeat.org/matlab/vl_pr.html.

  5. http://www.vlfeat.org/.

  6. https://github.com/socialsensor/multimedia-indexing.

  7. https://github.com/socialsensor/mm-concept-detection-experiments.

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    Eleni Mantziou, Symeon Papadopoulos & Yiannis Kompatsiaris

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This work was supported by the SocialSensor and REVEAL Projects, partially funded by the European Commission, under the contract numbers FP7-287975 and FP7-610928 respectively.

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Mantziou, E., Papadopoulos, S. & Kompatsiaris, Y. Learning to detect concepts with Approximate Laplacian Eigenmaps in large-scale and online settings. Int J Multimed Info Retr 4, 95–111 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13735-015-0079-y

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