Automatic image annotation using semi-supervised generative modeling. Issue 1 (January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hamid Amiri, S.; Jamzad, Mansour
• Is Part Of: Pattern recognition. Volume 48:Issue 1(2015:Jan.)
• Page Start: 174
• Page End: 188
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Subjects: Pattern perception -- Periodicals; Perception des structures -- Périodiques; Patroonherkenning; 006.4
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.07.012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-3203

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author" id="ab0005"> <title id="sect0005">Abstract</title> <sec> <p id="sp0105">Image annotation approaches need an annotated dataset to learn a model for the relation between images and words. Unfortunately, preparing a labeled dataset is highly time consuming and expensive. In this work, we describe the development of an annotation system in semi-supervised learning framework which by incorporating unlabeled images into training phase reduces the system demand to labeled images. Our approach constructs a generative model for each semantic class in two main steps. First, based on Gamma distribution, a generative model is constructed for each semantic class using labeled images in that class. The second step incorporates the unlabeled images by using a modified EM algorithm to update parameters of the constructed generative models. Performance evaluation of the proposed method on a standard dataset reveals that using unlabeled images will result in considerable improvement in accuracy of the annotation systems when a limited number of labeled images for each semantic class are available.</p> </sec> </abstract>