Title
Image retrieval with mixed initiative and multimodal feedback
Date Issued
01 June 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Kovashka A.
Snap Inc
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
How would you search for a unique, flamboyant shoe that a friend wore and you want to buy? What if you did not take a picture? Existing approaches propose interactive image search, but they either entrust the user with taking the initiative to provide informative feedback, or give all control to the system which determines informative questions to ask. Instead, we propose a mixed-initiative framework where both the user and system can be active participants, depending on whose input will be more beneficial for obtaining high-quality search results. We develop a reinforcement learning approach which dynamically decides which of four interaction opportunities to give to the user: drawing a sketch, marking images as relevant or not, providing free-form attribute feedback, or answering attribute-based questions. By allowing these four options, our system optimizes both the informativeness of feedback, and the ability of the user to explore the data, allowing faster image retrieval. We outperform five baselines on three datasets under extensive settings.
Volume
207
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104063589
Source
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
ISSN of the container
10773142
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by a University of Pittsburgh CRDF, USA grant, NVIDIA hardware, USA grant, and National Science Foundation, USA Grant No. 1566270 . We used XSEDE at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, supported by National Science Foundation, USA grants ACI-1053575 , ACI-1261721 . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. All authors each made a significant contribution to the research reported and have read and approved the submitted manuscript.
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