Image retrieval has been a top topic in the field of both computer vision and machine learning for a long time. Content based image retrieval, which tries to retrieve images from a database visually similar to a query image, has attracted much attention. Two most important issues of image retrieval are the representation and ranking of the images. Recently, bag-of-words based method has shown its power as a representation method. Moreover, nonnegative matrix factorization is also a popular way to represent the data samples. In addition, contextual similarity learning has also been studied and proven to be an effective method for the ranking problem. However, these technologies have never been used together. In this paper, we developed an effective image retrieval system by representing each image using the bag-of-words method as histograms, and then apply the nonnegative matrix factorization to factorize the histograms, and finally learn the ranking score using the contextual similarity learning method. The proposed novel system is evaluated on a large scale image database and the effectiveness is shown.
A Unified MDL-based Binning and Tensor Factorization Framework for PDF Estimation
Communications Research Laboratory（通信研究中心）；Ilmenau University of Technology（伊门瑙技术大学）；School of Electrical Engineering（电气工程学院）；Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学）
Multi-View Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning based on Collaborative Matrix Factorization
Southwest University（西南大学）；China University of Geosciences（中国地质大学）；George Mason University（乔治梅森大学）；Deakin University（迪肯大学）；Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture（北京建筑大学）
Topic-aware chatbot using Recurrent Neural Networks and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Hunan University（湖南大学）；University of Vermont（佛蒙特大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Harvey Mudd College（哈维穆德学院）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）
Beyond Single Images: Retrieval Self-Augmented Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection
College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, China（南开大学人工智能学院）；Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong（香港理工大学计算机系）；School of Computer and Information, Anhui Normal University, China（安徽师范大学计算机与信息学院）
