Unsupervised Selective Rank Fusion for Content-based Image Retrieval
Resumo
The CBIR (Content-Based Image Retrieval) systems are one of the main solutions for image retrieval tasks. These systems are mainly supported by the use of different visual features and machine learning methods. As distinct features produce complementary ranking results with different effectiveness performance, a promising solution consists in combining them. However, how to decide which visual features to combine is a very challenging task, especially when no training data is available. This work proposes three novel methods for selecting and combining ranked lists by estimating their effectiveness in an unsupervised way. The approaches were evaluated in five different image collections and several descriptors, achieving results comparable or superior to the state-of-the-art in most of the scenarios.
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