Cross-modal retrieval has become a highlighted research topic for retrieval across multimedia data such as image and text. A two-stage learning framework is widely adopted by most existing methods based on Deep Neural Network (DNN): The first learning stage is to generate separate representation for each modality, and the second learning stage is to get the cross-modal common representation. However, the existing methods have three limitations: (1) In the first learning stage, they only model intra-modality correlation, but ignore inter-modality correlation with rich complementary context. (2) In the second learning stage, they only adopt shallow networks with single-loss regularization, but ignore the intrinsic relevance of intra-modality and inter-modality correlation. (3) Only original instances are considered while the complementary fine-grained clues provided by their patches are ignored. For addressing the above problems, this paper proposes a cross-modal correlation learning (CCL) approach with multi-grained fusion by hierarchical network, and the contributions are as follows: (1) In the first learning stage, CCL exploits multi-level association with joint optimization to preserve the complementary context from intra-modality and inter-modality correlation simultaneously. (2) In the second learning stage, a multi-task learning strategy is designed to adaptively balance the intra-modality semantic category constraints and inter-modality pairwise similarity constraints. (3) CCL adopts multi-grained modeling, which fuses the coarse-grained instances and fine-grained patches to make cross-modal correlation more precise. Comparing with 13 state-of-the-art methods on 6 widely-used cross-modal datasets, the experimental results show our CCL approach achieves the best performance.
In , existing methods learn common representation by adopting shallow network architectures with single-loss regularization @cite_36 @cite_5 . However, the intra-modality and inter-modality correlation has intrinsic relevance, and such relevance is ignored by the single-loss regularization, which leads to inability for improving generalization performance. Multi-task learning (MTL) framework has been proposed to enhance the generalization ability by constructing a series of learning processes, which are relevant to each other and can mutually boost each other. Recently, extensive research works attempt to apply multi-task learning into deep architecture. DeepID2 @cite_24 simultaneously learns face identification and verification as two learning tasks to achieve better accuracy of face recognition. @cite_9 propose Faster R-CNN, which also consists of two learning tasks as the object bound and objectness score prediction, and boosts the object detection accuracy. Besides, a joint multi-task learning algorithm @cite_8 is proposed to predict attributes in images. However, most of the research efforts have focused on the single-modal scenario. Inspired by the above methods, we apply multi-task learning to perform common representation learning. It aims to balance intra-modality semantic category constraints and inter-modality pairwise similarity constraints to further improve the accuracy of cross-modal retrieval.
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This paper proposes a joint multi-task learning algorithm to better predict attributes in images using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). We consider learning binary semantic attributes through a multi-task CNN model, where each CNN will predict one binary attribute. The multi-task learning allows CNN models to simultaneously share visual knowledge among different attribute categories. Each CNN will generate attribute-specific feature representations, and then we apply multi-task learning on the features to predict their attributes. In our multi-task framework, we propose a method to decompose the overall model’s parameters into a latent task matrix and combination matrix. Furthermore, under-sampled classifiers can leverage shared statistics from other classifiers to improve their performance. Natural grouping of attributes is applied such that attributes in the same group are encouraged to share more knowledge. Meanwhile, attributes in different groups will generally compete with each other, and consequently share less knowledge. We show the effectiveness of our method on two popular attribute datasets. We introduce Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis (DCCA), a method to learn complex nonlinear transformations of two views of data such that the resulting representations are highly linearly correlated. Parameters of both transformations are jointly learned to maximize the (regularized) total correlation. It can be viewed as a nonlinear extension of the linear method canonical correlation analysis (CCA). It is an alternative to the nonparametric method kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA) for learning correlated nonlinear transformations. Unlike KCCA, DCCA does not require an inner product, and has the advantages of a parametric method: training time scales well with data size and the training data need not be referenced when computing the representations of unseen instances. In experiments on two real-world datasets, we find that DCCA learns representations with significantly higher correlation than those learned by CCA and KCCA. We also introduce a novel non-saturating sigmoid function based on the cube root that may be useful more generally in feedforward neural networks. State-of-the-art object detection networks depend on region proposal algorithms to hypothesize object locations. Advances like SPPnet [7] and Fast R-CNN [5] have reduced the running time of these detection networks, exposing region proposal computation as a bottleneck. In this work, we introduce a Region Proposal Network (RPN) that shares full-image convolutional features with the detection network, thus enabling nearly cost-free region proposals. An RPN is a fully-convolutional network that simultaneously predicts object bounds and objectness scores at each position. RPNs are trained end-to-end to generate high-quality region proposals, which are used by Fast R-CNN for detection. With a simple alternating optimization, RPN and Fast R-CNN can be trained to share convolutional features. For the very deep VGG-16 model [19], our detection system has a frame rate of 5fps (including all steps) on a GPU, while achieving state-of-the-art object detection accuracy on PASCAL VOC 2007 (73.2 mAP) and 2012 (70.4 mAP) using 300 proposals per image. Code is available at https: github.com ShaoqingRen faster_rcnn. This paper addresses the problem of matching images and captions in a joint latent space learnt with deep canonical correlation analysis (DCCA). The image and caption data are represented by the outputs of the vision and text based deep neural networks. The high dimensionality of the features presents a great challenge in terms of memory and speed complexity when used in DCCA framework. We address these problems by a GPU implementation and propose methods to deal with overfitting. This makes it possible to evaluate DCCA approach on popular caption-image matching benchmarks. We compare our approach to other recently proposed techniques and present state of the art results on three datasets.