Support Vector Machine Learning for Image Retrieval

by Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin and Bo Zhang

This is actually a vision paper. I am not sure whether the active learning is really just a version. In a query of similar images, the user labels some relevant and irrelevant images. A SVM is then used to rank the images correspondingly. This will help the query though but will not help the later search. A possible improvement is adding some manifold regularization. Quite contrary to my expectation. Hmm...