Learning Semantic Concepts from Noisy Media Collection for Automatic Image Annotation

Along with the explosive growth of images, automatic image annotation has attracted great interest of various research communities. However, despite the great progress achieved in the past two decades, automatic annotation is still an important open problem in computer vision, and can hardly achieve satisfactory performance in real‐world environment. In this paper, we address the problem of annotation when noise is interfering with the dataset. A semantic neighborhood learning model on noisy media collection is proposed. Missing labels are replenished, and semantic balanced neighborhood is construct. The model allows the integration of multiple label metric learning and local nonnegative sparse coding. We construct semantic consistent neighborhood for each sample, thus corresponding neighbors have higher global similarity, partial correlation, conceptual similarity along with semantic balance. Meanwhile, an iterative denoising method is also proposed. The method proposed makes a marked improvement as compared to the current state‐of‐the‐art.