Nnew: nearest neighbor expansion by weighting in image database retrieval

Abstract

Various systems have been developed for supporting content-based image retrieval. Most systems make very strong assumptions in modeling users’ query concepts. However, since the information need of users can be very diverse, these assumptions may not always hold and hence can lead to poor search results. For instance, if a system assumes that the query-concept is convex but a user issues a disjunctive query, and vice versa, the search result cannot be satisfactory. In this study, we propose a method that can approximate more complex (non-convex and disjunctive) query concepts. Our method uses intelligent modeling and learning to increase query speed and accuracy. Empirical results show that our method converges consistently faster than some traditional approaches on different datasets.