In this paper, a novel image classification method, incorporating active learning and semi-supervised learning (SSL), is proposed. In this method, two classifiers are needed where one is trained by labeled data and some unlabeled data, while the other one is trained only by labeled data. Specifically, in each round, two classifiers iterate to select useful examples in contention for user query. Then we compute the label changing rate for every unlabeled example in each classifier. Those examples in which the label changing rate is zero and the label in the two classifiers is the same are selected to add into the training data of the first classifier. Our experimental results show that our method significantly reduced the need of labeled examples, while at the same time reducing classification error compared with widely used image classification algorithms.
This paper addresses semantic image classification with topic model, which focusing on discovering a hidden semantic to solve the semantic gap between low-level visual feature and high-level feature. In our approach, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model successfully reflect the high level features and the RGB SIFT features which integrating the Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) features with color features on the assumption that pictures generated by mixture of latent semantic which we called topics. The proposed approach has a sufficient theoretical basis and the experimental evaluations the COREL database demonstrate its promise of the effectiveness.
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