Zero-shot image classification (ZSIC) is one of the emerging challenges in the communities of computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this paper, we propose to exploit the pairwise relationships between test instances to increase the performance of conventional methods, e.g. direct attribute prediction (DAP), for the ZSIC problem. To infer pairwise relationships between test instances, we introduce two different methods, a binary classification based method and a metric learning based method. Based on the inferred relationships, we construct a similarity graph to represent test instances, and then employ an adaptive graph anchors voting method to refine the results of DAP iteratively: In each iteration, we partition the similarity graph with the normalized spectral clustering method, and determine the class label of each cluster via the voting of graph anchors. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our method: with the properly learned pairwise relationships, we successfully boost the mean class accuracy of DAP on two standard benchmarks for the ZSIC problem, Animal with Attribute and aPascal-aYahoo, from 57.46% to 84.43% and 26.59% to 70.09%, respectively. Besides, experimental results on the SUN Attribute also suggest our method can obtain considerable performance improvement for the large-scale ZSIC problem.
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Li, H., Wu, H., Lin, S., Lin, L., Luo, X., & Izquierdo, E. (2017). Boosting zero-shot image classification via pairwise relationship learning. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10111 LNCS, pp. 85–99). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54181-5_6
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