Probabilistic Label Trees for Efficient Large Scale Image Classification

Baoyuan Liu, Fereshteh Sadeghi, Marshall Tappen, Ohad Shamir, Ce Liu; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013, pp. 843-850

Abstract


Large-scale recognition problems with thousands of classes pose a particular challenge because applying the classifier requires more computation as the number of classes grows. The label tree model integrates classification with the traversal of the tree so that complexity grows logarithmically. In this paper, we show how the parameters of the label tree can be found using maximum likelihood estimation. This new probabilistic learning technique produces a label tree with significantly improved recognition accuracy.

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@InProceedings{Liu_2013_CVPR,
author = {Liu, Baoyuan and Sadeghi, Fereshteh and Tappen, Marshall and Shamir, Ohad and Liu, Ce},
title = {Probabilistic Label Trees for Efficient Large Scale Image Classification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2013}
}