This paper presents a new method for refining image annotation by integrating probabilistic la- tent semantic analysis （PLSA） with conditional random field （CRF）. First a PLSA model with asymmetric modalities is c...This paper presents a new method for refining image annotation by integrating probabilistic la- tent semantic analysis （PLSA） with conditional random field （CRF）. First a PLSA model with asymmetric modalities is constructed to predict a candidate set of annotations with confidence scores, and then model semantic relationship among the candidate annotations by leveraging conditional ran- dom field. In CRF, the confidence scores generated lay the PLSA model and the Fliekr distance be- tween pairwise candidate annotations are considered as local evidences and contextual potentials re- spectively. The novelty of our method mainly lies in two aspects ： exploiting PLSA to predict a candi- date set of annotations with confidence scores as well as CRF to further explore the semantic context among candidate annotations for precise image annotation. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper, an experiment is conducted on the standard Corel dataset and its re- sults are ＇compared favorably with several state-of-the-art approaches.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Priorities Programme(No.2013CB329502)the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China(No.2012AA011003)+1 种基金the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shanxi Province of China(No.2014JQ2-6036)the Science and Technology R&D Program of Baoji City(No.203020013,2013R2-2)
文摘This paper presents a new method for refining image annotation by integrating probabilistic la- tent semantic analysis （PLSA） with conditional random field （CRF）. First a PLSA model with asymmetric modalities is constructed to predict a candidate set of annotations with confidence scores, and then model semantic relationship among the candidate annotations by leveraging conditional ran- dom field. In CRF, the confidence scores generated lay the PLSA model and the Fliekr distance be- tween pairwise candidate annotations are considered as local evidences and contextual potentials re- spectively. The novelty of our method mainly lies in two aspects ： exploiting PLSA to predict a candi- date set of annotations with confidence scores as well as CRF to further explore the semantic context among candidate annotations for precise image annotation. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper, an experiment is conducted on the standard Corel dataset and its re- sults are ＇compared favorably with several state-of-the-art approaches.
