Abstract
Metric learning has been widely employed, especially in various computer vision tasks, with the fundamental assumption that all samples (e.g., regions/superpixels in images/videos) are independent and identically distributed (IID). However, since the samples are usually spatially-connected or temporally-correlated with their physically-connected neighbours, they are not IID (non-IID for short), which cannot be directly handled by existing methods. Thus, we propose to learn and integrate non-IID metrics (NIME). To incorporate the non-IID spatial/temporal relations, instead of directly using non-IID features and metric learning as previous methods, NIME first builds several non-IID representations on original (non-IID) features by various graph kernel functions, and then automatically learns the metric under the best combination of various non-IID representations. NIME is applied to solve two typical computer vision tasks: interactive image segmentation and histology image identification. The results show that learning and integrating non-IID metrics improves the performance, compared to the IID methods. Moreover, our method achieves results comparable or better than that of the state-of-the-arts.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1524-1531 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Event | 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 2017 Feb 4 → 2017 Feb 10 |
Other
Other | 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 17/2/4 → 17/2/10 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by NSFC (Nos. 61673203, 61305068, 61432008, 61321491), Jiangsu Nature Science Foundation (JSNSF) (No. BK20130581). The authors would like to thank Wanqi Yang and Jing Huo for proofreading.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence