Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback using SVM Active Learning
<pre>In content-based image retrieval, relevant feedback is studied extensively <br />to narrow the gap between low-level image feature and high-level semantic <br />concept. In general, relevance feedback aims to improve the retrieval <br />performance by learning with user's <span>judgements</span> on the retrieval results. <br />Despite widespread interest, but feedback related technologies are often <br />faced with a few limitations. One of the most obvious limitations is often <br />requiring the user to repeat a number of steps before obtaining the <br />improved search results. This makes the process inefficient and tedious <br />search for the online applications. In this paper, a effective feedback <br />related scheme for content-based image retrieval is proposed. First, a <br />decision boundary is learned via Support Vector Machine to filter the <br />images in the database. Then, a ranking function for selecting the most <br />informative samples will be calculated by defining a novel criterion that <br />considers both the scores of Support Vector Machine function and similarity<br />metric between the "ideal query" and the images in the database. The <br />experimental results on standard <span>datasets</span> have showed the effectiveness <br />of the proposed method.</pre>