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H-Metric: Characterizing Image Datasets via Homogenization Based on KNN-Queries

Authors
  • Welington M da Silva
  • Jose F Rodrigues Jr
  • Agma J M Traina
  • Sergio F da Silva

Abstract

Precision-Recall is one of the main metrics for evaluating content-based image retrieval techniques. However, it does not provide an ample perception of the properties of an image dataset immersed in a metric space. In this work, we describe an alternative metric named H-Metric, which is determined along a sequence of controlled modifications in the image dataset. The process is named homogenization and works by altering the homogeneity characteristics of the classes of the images. The result is a process that measures how hard it is to deal with a set of images in respect to content-based retrieval, offering support in the task of analyzing configurations of distance functions and of features extractors.
Year: 2011
Volume 10
Page/Article: 52-60
DOI: 10.2481/dsj.10-007
Published on Jan 15, 2012
Peer Reviewed