Fast Instance Search Based on Approximate Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbor Search

Masakazu Iwamura, Nobuaki Matozaki, Koichi Kise · 2014

In the TRECVID Instance Search (INS) task, it is known that use of BM25, which is an improvement of the TFIDF,greatly improves retrieval performance. Its calculation, however, requires tremendous amount of computational cost and this fact makes its use intractable. In this paper, we present its efficient computational method. Since the BM25 is obtained by solving the bichromatic reverse nearest neighbor (BRNN)search problem,we propose an approximate method for the problem based on the state-of-the-art approximate nearest neighbor search method, bucket distance hashing (BDH). An experiment using the TRECVID INS 2012 dataset showed that the proposed method reduced computational cost to less than 1/3500 of the brute-force search with keeping the accuracy.

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