In recent years, the distinctive advancement of handling huge data promotes the evolution of ubiquitous computing and analysis technologies. With the constantly upward system burden and computational complexity, adaptive coding has been a fascinating topic for pattern analysis, with outstanding performance. In this work, a continuous hashing method, termed continuous random hashing (CRH), is proposed to encode sequential data stream, while ignorance of previously hashing knowledge is possible. Instead, a random selection idea is adopted to adaptively approximate the differential encoding patterns of data stream, e.g., streaming media, and iteration is avoided for stepwise learning. Experimental results demonstrate our method is able to provide outstanding performance, as a benchmark approach to continuous hashing.
Another quite typical attempt is to define an objective function, usually a hash function as optimized encoder @cite_3 @cite_19 , so that binary codes can be obtained with continuous relaxation. In light of Laplacian eigenmaps, Spectral Hashing (SH) @cite_14 computes approximate solutions by relaxing the binary constraints. Based on this idea, some variations use the codes from spectral hashing to define the hash function as labels of a binary classifier. To hash the similar data among a large data set, a common approach is used to query data patterns with similarity preserving. It has been a common view that iterative optimization is applied to find out the best solution by defining objective functions @cite_12 @cite_3 . Nevertheless, it requires more calculations to meet the local optimum usually. And it would be ideal for complicated applications if few steps are adopted in encoder of binary hashing.
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Learning to hash involves learning hash functions from a set of images for embedding high-dimensional visual descriptors into a similarity-preserving low-dimensional Hamming space. Most of existing methods resort to a single representation of images, that is, only one type of visual descriptors is used to learn a hash function to assign binary codes to images. However, images are often described by multiple different visual descriptors (such as SIFT, GIST, HOG), so it is desirable to incorporate these multiple representations into learning a hash function, leading to multi-view hashing. In this paper we present a sequential spectral learning approach to multi-view hashing where a hash function is sequentially determined by solving the successive maximization of local variances subject to decorrelation constraints. We compute multi-view local variances by α-averaging view-specific distance matrices such that the best averaged distance matrix is determined by minimizing its α-divergence from view-specific distance matrices. We also present a scalable implementation, exploiting a fast approximate k-NN graph construction method, in which α-averaged distances computed in small partitions determined by recursive spectral bisection are gradually merged in conquer steps until whole examples are used. Numerical experiments on Caltech-256, CIFAR-20, and NUS-WIDE datasets confirm the high performance of our method, in comparison to single-view spectral hashing as well as existing multi-view hashing methods. An attractive approach for fast search in image databases is binary hashing, where each high-dimensional, real-valued image is mapped onto a low-dimensional, binary vector and the search is done in this binary space. Finding the optimal hash function is difficult because it involves binary constraints, and most approaches approximate the optimization by relaxing the constraints and then binarizing the result. Here, we focus on the binary autoencoder model, which seeks to reconstruct an image from the binary code produced by the hash function. We show that the optimization can be simplified with the method of auxiliary coordinates. This reformulates the optimization as alternating two easier steps: one that learns the encoder and decoder separately, and one that optimizes the code for each image. Image retrieval experiments show the resulting hash function outperforms or is competitive with state-of-the-art methods for binary hashing. An attractive approach for fast search in image databases is binary hashing, where each high-dimensional, real-valued image is mapped onto a low-dimensional, binary vector and the search is done in this binary space. Finding the optimal hash function is difficult because it involves binary constraints, and most approaches approximate the optimization by relaxing the constraints and then binarizing the result. Here, we focus on the binary autoencoder model, which seeks to reconstruct an image from the binary code produced by the hash function. We show that the optimization can be simplified with the method of auxiliary coordinates. This reformulates the optimization as alternating two easier steps: one that learns the encoder and decoder separately, and one that optimizes the code for each image. Image retrieval experiments, using precision recall and a measure of code utilization, show the resulting hash function outperforms or is competitive with state-of-the-art methods for binary hashing. Binary code learning, a.k.a., hashing, has been recently popular due to its high efficiency in large-scale similarity search and recognition. It typically maps high-dimensional data points to binary codes, where data similarity can be efficiently computed via rapid Hamming distance. Most existing unsupervised hashing schemes pursue binary codes by reducing the quantization error from an original real-valued data space to a resulting Hamming space. On the other hand, most existing supervised hashing schemes constrain binary code learning to correlate with pairwise similarity labels. However, few methods consider ordinal relations in the binary code learning process, which serve as a very significant cue to learn the optimal binary codes for similarity search. In this paper, we propose a novel hashing scheme, dubbed Ordinal Embedding Hashing (OEH), which embeds given ordinal relations among data points to learn the ranking-preserving binary codes. The core idea is to construct a directed unweighted graph to capture the ordinal relations, and then train the hash functions using this ordinal graph to preserve the permutation relations in the Hamming space. To learn such hash functions effectively, we further relax the discrete constraints and design a stochastic gradient decent algorithm to obtain the optimal solution. Experimental results on two large-scale benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed OEH method can achieve superior performance over the state-of-the-arts approaches. At last, the evaluation on query by humming dataset demonstrates the OEH also has good performance for music retrieval by using user's humming or singing.