Somayeh Keshavarz
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Learning Natural Thresholds for Image Ranking
Somayeh Keshavarz, Quang Nhat Tran, Richard Souvenir
Auto-TLDR; Image Representation Learning and Label Discretization for Natural Image Ranking
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For image ranking tasks with naturally continuous output, such as age and scenicness estimation, it is common to discretize the label range and apply methods from (ordered) classification analysis. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach for simultaneous representation learning and label discretization. Compared to arbitrarily selecting thresholds, we seek to learn thresholds and image representations by minimizing a novel loss function in an end-to-end model. We demonstrate our combined approach on a variety of image ranking tasks and demonstrate that it outperforms task-specific methods. Additionally, our learned partitioning scheme can be transferred to improve methods that rely on discretization.