Interestingness prediction by robust learning to rank

Yanwei Fu, Timothy M. Hospedales, Tao Xiang*, Shaogang Gong, Yuan Yao

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The problem of predicting image or video interestingness from their low-level feature representations has received increasing interest. As a highly subjective visual attribute, annotating the interestingness value of training data for learning a prediction model is challenging. To make the annotation less subjective and more reliable, recent studies employ crowdsourcing tools to collect pairwise comparisons - relying on majority voting to prune the annotation outliers/errors. In this paper, we propose a more principled way to identify annotation outliers by formulating the interestingness prediction task as a unified robust learning to rank problem, tackling both the outlier detection and interestingness prediction tasks jointly. Extensive experiments on both image and video interestingness benchmark datasets demonstrate that our new approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2014 - 13th European Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages488-503
Number of pages16
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)9783319106045
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 6 Sept 201412 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8690 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period6/09/1412/09/14

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