Image Similarity using An Ensemble of Context-Sensitive Models

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Autores principales: Liao, Zukang, Chen, Min
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author Liao, Zukang
Chen, Min
author_facet Liao, Zukang
Chen, Min
contents Image similarity has been extensively studied in computer vision. In recent years, machine-learned models have shown their ability to encode more semantics than traditional multivariate metrics. However, in labelling semantic similarity, assigning a numerical score to a pair of images is impractical, making the improvement and comparisons on the task difficult. In this work, we present a more intuitive approach to build and compare image similarity models based on labelled data in the form of A:R vs B:R, i.e., determining if an image A is closer to a reference image R than another image B. We address the challenges of sparse sampling in the image space (R, A, B) and biases in the models trained with context-based data by using an ensemble model. Our testing results show that the ensemble model constructed performs ~5% better than the best individual context-sensitive models. They also performed better than the models that were directly fine-tuned using mixed imagery data as well as existing deep embeddings, e.g., CLIP and DINO. This work demonstrates that context-based labelling and model training can be effective when an appropriate ensemble approach is used to alleviate the limitation due to sparse sampling.
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spellingShingle Image Similarity using An Ensemble of Context-Sensitive Models
Liao, Zukang
Chen, Min
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image similarity has been extensively studied in computer vision. In recent years, machine-learned models have shown their ability to encode more semantics than traditional multivariate metrics. However, in labelling semantic similarity, assigning a numerical score to a pair of images is impractical, making the improvement and comparisons on the task difficult. In this work, we present a more intuitive approach to build and compare image similarity models based on labelled data in the form of A:R vs B:R, i.e., determining if an image A is closer to a reference image R than another image B. We address the challenges of sparse sampling in the image space (R, A, B) and biases in the models trained with context-based data by using an ensemble model. Our testing results show that the ensemble model constructed performs ~5% better than the best individual context-sensitive models. They also performed better than the models that were directly fine-tuned using mixed imagery data as well as existing deep embeddings, e.g., CLIP and DINO. This work demonstrates that context-based labelling and model training can be effective when an appropriate ensemble approach is used to alleviate the limitation due to sparse sampling.
title Image Similarity using An Ensemble of Context-Sensitive Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07951