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- This invention relates to a method and apparatus for retrieving visual object categories from a database containing images and, more particularly, to an improved method and apparatus for searching for, and retrieving, relevant images corresponding to visual object categories specified by a user by means of, for example, an Internet search engine or the like.
- the most relevant returned items i.e. those containing precisely the keyword(s) entered, are identified and then ranked according to a numeric value based on the number of links existing to each respective web page in other web pages.
- the results likely to be of most relevance to the user are listed in the first few pages of the search results.
- the results most likely to be of relevance are not likely to be returned in the first few pages of the search results, but instead are more likely to be evenly mixed with unrelated images.
- This method is highly effective in quickly gathering related images from the millions available across the World Wide Web, but the final outcome is far from perfect in the sense that the user may then have to go through tens or even hundreds or thousands of result entries to find the images of interest. We have now devised an improved arrangement.
- apparatus for determining the relevance of images retrieved from a database relative to a specified visual object category, the apparatus comprising means for transforming a visual object category into a model defining features of said visual object category and a spatial relationship therebetween.
- Means may be provided for storing said model.
- means are provided for comparing a set of images retrieved from a database with the stored model and calculating a likelihood value relating to each image based on its correspondence with said model.
- Means may further be provided for ranking the images in order of the respective likelihood values; and/or for retrieving further images corresponding to the specified visual object category.
- a method for determining the relevance of images retrieved from a database relative to a specified visual object category comprising transforming a visual object category into a model defining features of said visual object category and a spatial relationship therebetween.
- the method may further include the step of storing said model.
- the method may further include the steps of comparing a set of images retrieved from the database with the stored model and calculating a likelihood value relating to each image based on its correspondence with the model.
- the method includes ranking the images in order of the respective likelihood values; and/or for finding further images corresponding to the specified visual object category.
- the set of images may be retrieved from a database during a search of that database, using for example, a search engine.
- each part is represented by one or more of its appearance and/or geometry, its scale relative to the model, and its occlusion probability, which parameters may be modelled by probability density functions, such as Gaussian probability functions or the like.
- the step of comparing an image with the models preferably includes identifying features of the image and evaluating the features using the above-mentioned probability densities.
- the method may include the step of selecting a sub-set of the images retrieved during the database search, and creating the model from this sub-set of images.
- substantially all of the images retrieved during the database search may be used to create the model.
- at least two different models may be created in respect of a set of images retrieved during, for example, a database search, say patches and curves, although other features are envisaged.
- a heterogeneous model made up of a combination of features may be created.
- the method preferably includes the step of selecting the nature or type of model to be used for the comparison and ranking steps in respect of a particular set of images.
- the selective step may be performed by calculating a differential ranking measure in respect of each model, and selecting the model having the largest differential ranking measure.
- Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal steps of a method according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal components of a method according to a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal steps of a patch feature extraction method for use in the method of Figure 1 or Figure 2;
- Figure 4 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal steps of a curve feature extraction method for use in a method of Figure 1 or Figure 2;
- Figure 5 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal steps of a model learning method in the supervised case used in the method of Figure 1;
- Figure 6 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the principal steps of a model learning method in the unsupervised case used in the method of Figure 2 (note: a rectangle denotes a process while a parallelogram denotes data).
- the present invention is based on the principle that, even without improving the performance of a search engine per se the above-mentioned problems related to image-based Internet searching may be alleviated by measuring 'visual consistency' amongst the images that are returned by the search and re-ranking them on the basis of this consistency, thereby increasing the proportion of relevant images returned to the user within the first few entries in the search results.
- This concept is based on the assumption that images related to the search requirements will typically be visually similar, while images that are unrelated to the search requirements will typically look different from each other as well.
- the problem of how to measure 'visual consistency' is approached in the following exemplary embodiments of the present invention as one of probabilistic modelling and robust statistics.
- the algorithm employed therein robustly learns the common visual elements in a set of returned images so that the unwanted (non-category) images can be rejected, or at least so that the returned images can be ranked according to their resemblance to this commonality. More precisely, a visual object model is learned which can accommodate the intra-class variation in the requested category.
- the apparatus and method of these exemplary embodiments of the invention employ an extension of a constellation model, and are designed to learn object categories from images containing clutter, thereby at least minimising the requirement for human intervention.
- An object or constellation model consists of a number of parts which are spatially arranged over the object, wherein each part has an appearance and can be occluded or not.
- a part in this case may, for example, be a patch of picture elements (pixels) or a curve segment.
- a part is represented by its intrinsic description (appearance or geometry), its scale relative to the model, and its occlusion probability.
- the shape of the object is represented by the mutual position of the parts.
- the entire model is generative and probabilistic, in the sense that part description, scale model shape and occlusion are all modelled by probability density functions, which in this case are Gaussians.
- the process of learning an object category is one of first detecting features with characteristic scales, and then estimating the parameters of the above densities from these features, such that the model gives a maximum-likelihood description of the training data.
- a model consists of P parts and is specified by parameters ⁇ .
- the model is scale invariant. Full details of this model and its fitting to training data using the EM algorithm are given by R. Fergus, P. Perona, and A. Zisserman in Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning, In Proc. CVPR, 2003, and essentially the same representations and estimation methods are used in the following exemplary embodiments of the present invention.
- An interest operator such as that described by T. Kadir and M. Brady in Scale, Saliency and Image Description, IJCV, 45(2):83-105, 2001 , may be used to find regions that are salient over both location and scale. It is based on measurements of the grey level histogram and entropy over the entire region. The operator detects a set of circular regions so that both position (the circle centre) and scale (the circle radius) are determined. The operator is largely invariant to scale changes and rotation of the image. Thus, for example, if the image is doubled in size, then the corresponding set of regions will be detected (at twice the scale).
- extended edge chains may be used as detected, for example, by the edge operator described by J.F. Canny in A Computational Approach to Edge Detection, IEEE PAMI, 8(6):679-698, 1986.
- the chains are then segmented into segments between bitangent point, i.e. points at which a line has two points of tangency with the curve.
- bitangency is covariant with projective transformations. This means that for near planar curves the segmentation is invariant to viewpoint, an important requirement if the same, or similar, objects are imaged at different scales and orientations.
- each patch exists in a predetermined dimensional space. Since the appearance densities of the model must also exist in this space, it is necessary from a practical point-of-view to somehow reduce the dimensionality of each patch whilst retaining its distinctiveness.
- PCA principal component analysis
- the patches from all images are collected and PCA performed on them.
- the appearance of each patch is then a vector of the coordinates within the first predetermined number k principal components, thereby giving A. This results in a good reconstruction of the original patch whilst using a moderate number of parameters per part.
- an image search using a search engine such as Google® may be used to download a set of images and the integrity of the downloaded images is checked. In addition, those outside a reasonable size range, say between 100 and 600 pixels on the major axis) are discarded.
- a typical image search is likely to return in the region of 450-700 usable images and a script may be employed to automate the procedure.
- the images returned can be divided into three distinct types: • Good images, i.e. good examples of the keyword category, lacking major occlusion, although there may be a variety of viewpoints, scalings and orientations. • Intermediate images, i.e.
- each image is converted into greyscale (because colour information is not used in the model described above, although colour information may be used in other models applied to embodiments of the present invention, and the invention is not intended to be limited in this regard), and curves and regions of interest are identified within the images.
- a predetermined number of regions with the highest saliency are used from each image.
- the learning process takes one of two distinct forms: unsupervised learning ( Figure 6) and limited supervision ( Figure 5).
- unsupervised learning a model is learnt using all images in a dataset. No human intervention is required in the process.
- limited supervision an alternative approach using relevance feedback is used, whereby a user selects, say, 10 or so images from the dataset that are close to the required image, and a model is learnt using these selected images.
- the learning task takes the form of estimating the parameters ⁇ of the model discussed above.
- the model is ⁇ learnt using the EM algorithm as described by R. Fergus et al in the reference specified above.
- a variety of models may be learned, each made up of a variety of feature types (e.g. patches, curves, etc), and a decision must then be made as to which should give the final ranking that will be presented to a user.
- this is done by using a second set of images, consisting entirely of "junk" images (i.e. images which are totally unrelated to the specified visual object category). These may be collected by, for example, typing "things" into a search engine's image search facility.
- each model evaluates the likelihood of images from both datasets and a differential ranking measure is computed between them, for example, by looking at the area under an ROC curve between the two data sets. The model which gives the largest differential ranking measure is selected to give the final ranking presented to the user.
- the model fitting situation dealt with herein is equivalent to that faced in the area of robust statistics: in the sense that there is an attempt to learn a model from a dataset which contains valid data (the good images) but also outliers (the intermediate and junk images) which cannot be fitted by the model. Consequently, a robust fitting algorithm, RANS AC may be adapted to the needs of the present invention.
- a set of images sufficient to train a model (10, in this case) is randomly sampled from the images retrieved during a database search. This model is then scored on the remaining images by the differential ranking measure explained above. The sampling process is repeated a sufficient number of times to ensure a good chance of a sample set consisting entirely of inliers (good images).
- the models of a category have been shown to be capable of being learnt from training sets containing large amounts of unrelated images (say up to 50% and beyond) and it is this ability that allows the present invention to handle the type of datasets returned by conventional Internet search engines.
- the algorithm only requires images as its input, so the method and apparatus of the present invention can be used in conjunction with any existing search engine. Still further, it will be appreciated by a person skilled in the art that the present invention has as a significant advantage that it is scale invariant in its ability to retrieve/rank relevant images.
- category keyword (needed for (i) above) can be automatically selected by choosing the most commonly searched for categories.
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