Attention-Aware Polarity Sensitive Embedding for Affective Image Retrieval

Xingxu Yao, Dongyu She, Sicheng Zhao, Jie Liang, Yu-Kun Lai, Jufeng Yang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 1140-1150

Abstract


Images play a crucial role for people to express their opinions online due to the increasing popularity of social networks. While an affective image retrieval system is useful for obtaining visual contents with desired emotions from a massive repository, the abstract and subjective characteristics make the task challenging. To address the problem, this paper introduces an Attention-aware Polarity Sensitive Embedding (APSE) network to learn affective representations in an end-to-end manner. First, to automatically discover and model the informative regions of interest, we develop a hierarchical attention mechanism, in which both polarity- and emotion-specific attended representations are aggregated for discriminative feature embedding. Second, we present a weighted emotion-pair loss to take the inter- and intra-polarity relationships of the emotional labels into consideration. Guided by attention module, we weight the sample pairs adaptively which further improves the performance of feature embedding. Extensive experiments on four popular benchmark datasets show that the proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Yao_2019_ICCV,
author = {Yao, Xingxu and She, Dongyu and Zhao, Sicheng and Liang, Jie and Lai, Yu-Kun and Yang, Jufeng},
title = {Attention-Aware Polarity Sensitive Embedding for Affective Image Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}