Similarity Comparisons for Interactive Fine-Grained Categorization

Catherine Wah, Grant Van Horn, Steve Branson, Subhransu Maji, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014, pp. 859-866

Abstract


Current human-in-the-loop fine-grained visual categorization systems depend on a predefined vocabulary of attributes and parts, usually determined by experts. In this work, we move away from that expert-driven and attribute-centric paradigm and present a novel interactive classification system that incorporates computer vision and perceptual similarity metrics in a unified framework. At test time, users are asked to judge relative similarity between a query image and various sets of images; these general queries do not require expert-defined terminology and are applicable to other domains and basic-level categories, enabling a flexible, efficient, and scalable system for fine-grained categorization with humans in the loop. Our system outperforms existing state-of-the-art systems for relevance feedback-based image retrieval as well as interactive classification, resulting in a reduction of up to 43% in the average number of questions needed to correctly classify an image.

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@InProceedings{Wah_2014_CVPR,
author = {Wah, Catherine and Van Horn, Grant and Branson, Steve and Maji, Subhransu and Perona, Pietro and Belongie, Serge},
title = {Similarity Comparisons for Interactive Fine-Grained Categorization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2014}
}