基于图正则化与非负组稀疏的自动图像标注

设计一个稳健的自动图像标注系统的重要环节是提取能够有效描述图像语义的视觉特征。由于颜色、纹理和形状等异构视觉特征在表示特定图像语义时所起作用的重要程度不同且同一类特征之间具有一定的相关性，该文提出了一种图正则化约束下的非负组稀疏(Graph Regularized Non-negative Group Sparsity, GRNGS)模型来实现图像标注，并通过一种非负矩阵分解方法来计算其模型参数。该模型结合了图正则化与l2,1-范数约束，使得标注过程中所选的组群特征能体现一定的视觉相似性和语义相关性。在Corel5K和ESP Game等图像数据集上的实验结果表明:相较于一些最新的图像标注模型，GRNGS模型的鲁棒性更强，标注结果更精确。

Automatic Image Annotation via Graph Regularization and Non-negative Group Sparsity

Extracting an effective visual feature to uncover semantic information is an important work for designing a robust automatic image annotation system. Since different kinds of heterogeneous features (such as color, texture and shape) show different intrinsic discriminative power and the same kind of features are usually correlated for image understanding, a Graph Regularized Non-negative Group Sparsity (GRNGS) model for image annotation is proposed, which can be effectively solved by a new method of non-negative matrix factorization. This model combines graph regularization withl2,1-norm regularization, and is able to select proper group features, which can describe both visual similarities and semantic correlations when performing the task of image annotation. Experimental results reported over the Corel5K and ESP Game databases show the robust capability and good performance of the proposed method.