Title
Image retrieval with mixed initiative and multimodal feedback
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Pittsburgh
Publisher(s)
BMVA Press
Abstract
How would you search for a unique, fashionable shoe that a friend wore and you want to buy, but you didn't take a picture? Existing approaches propose interactive image search as a promising venue. However, 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 initiative will be more beneficial for obtaining high-quality search results. We develop a reinforcement learning approach which dynamically decides which of three interaction opportunities to give to the user: drawing a sketch, providing free-form attribute feedback, or answering attribute-based questions. By allowing these three options, our system optimizes both the informativeness and exploration capabilities allowing faster image retrieval. We outperform three baselines on three datasets and extensive experimental settings.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084013514
Conference
British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgment. This research was funded by a University of Pittsburgh Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) grant and an NVIDIA hardware grant. This research also used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and the Data Exacell at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), supported by National Science Foundation grants ACI-1053575 and ACI-1261721. Finally, we thank Ray Mooney for the original idea of developing a mixed-initiative framework for attribute-based search, and we are grateful to our search experiment participants for their time and effort.
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