Supervised Semantics-preserving Deep Hashing (TPAMI18)
Supervised Learning of Semantics-Preserving Deep Hashing (SSDH)
Created by Kevin Lin, Huei-Fang Yang, and Chu-Song Chen at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
This paper presents a simple yet effective supervised deep hash approach that constructs binary hash codes from labeled data for large-scale image search. We assume that the semantic labels are governed by several latent attributes with each attribute on or off, and classification relies on these attributes. Based on this assumption, our approach, dubbed supervised semantics-preserving deep hashing (SSDH), constructs hash functions as a latent layer in a deep network and the binary codes are learned by minimizing an objective function defined over classification error and other desirable hash codes properties. With this design, SSDH has a nice characteristic that classification and retrieval are unified in a single learning model. Moreover, SSDH performs joint learning of image representations, hash codes, and classification in a point-wised manner, and thus is scalable to large-scale datasets. SSDH is simple and can be realized by a slight enhancement of an existing deep architecture for classification; yet it is effective and outperforms other hashing approaches on several benchmarks and large datasets. Compared with state-of-the-art approaches, SSDH achieves higher retrieval accuracy, while the classification performance is not sacrificed.
The TPAMI pre-print can be found in the following arXiv preprint. Presentation slide can be found here
If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:
Supervised Learning of Semantics-Preserving Hash via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Huei-Fang Yang, Kevin Lin, Chu-Song Chen IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2017Supervised Learning of Semantics-Preserving Hashing via Deep Neural Networks for Large-Scale Image Search Huei-Fang Yang, Kevin Lin, Chu-Song Chen arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00101
Adjust Makefile.config and simply run the following commands:
$ make all -j8 $ make test -j8 $ make matcaffe $ ./prepare.sh
For a faster build, compile in parallel by doing
make all -j8where 8 is the number of parallel threads for compilation (a good choice for the number of threads is the number of cores in your machine).
Launch matlab and run
demo.m. This demo will generate 48-bits binary codes for each image using the proposed SSDH.
>> demo
Launch matalb and run
run_cifar10.mto perform the evaluation of
precision at kand
mean average precision (mAP) at k. In this CIFAR10 demo, we employ all the test images (
10,000images) as the query set, and we select all the training images (
50,000images) to form the database (In the paper, only
1,000test images are used as the query to comply with the settings in other methods). We computed mAP based on the entire retrieval list, thus we set
k = 50,000in this experiment. The bit length of binary codes is
48. This process takes around 12 minutes.
>> run_cifar10
Then, you will get the
mAPresult as follows.
>> MAP = 0.913361
Moreover, simply run the following commands to generate the
precision at kcurves:
$ cd analysis $ gnuplot plot-p-at-k.gnuplot
You will reproduce the precision curves with respect to different number of top retrieved samples when the 48-bit hash codes are used in the evaluation.
Simply run the following command to train SSDH:
$ cd /examples/SSDH $ ./train.sh
After 50,000 iterations, the top-1 error rate is around 10% on the test set of CIFAR10 dataset:
I1221 16:27:44.764175 2985 solver.cpp:326] Iteration 50000, loss = -0.10567 I1221 16:27:44.764205 2985 solver.cpp:346] Iteration 50000, Testing net (#0) I1221 16:27:58.907842 2985 solver.cpp:414] Test net output #0: accuracy = 0.8989 I1221 16:27:58.907877 2985 solver.cpp:414] Test net output #1: loss: 50%-fire-rate = 0.000621793 (* 1 = 0.000621793 loss) I1221 16:27:58.907886 2985 solver.cpp:414] Test net output #2: loss: classfication-error = 0.369317 (* 1 = 0.369317 loss) I1221 16:27:58.907892 2985 solver.cpp:414] Test net output #3: loss: forcing-binary = -0.114405 (* 1 = -0.114405 loss) I1221 16:27:58.907897 2985 solver.cpp:331] Optimization Done. I1221 16:27:58.907902 2985 caffe.cpp:214] Optimization Done.
The training process takes roughly 2~3 hours on a desktop with Titian X GPU. You will finally get your model named
SSDH48_iter_xxxxxx.caffemodelunder folder
/examples/SSDH/
To use the model, modify the
model_filein
demo.mto link to your model:
model_file = './YOUR/MODEL/PATH/filename.caffemodel';
Launch matlab, run
demo.mand enjoy!
>> demo
It should be easy to train the model using another dataset as long as that dataset has label annotations.
create_imagenet.sh.
sourcein
/example/SSDH/train_val.prototxtto link to your training/test set.
./examples/SSDH/train.sh, and start training on your dataset.
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If
./prepare.shfails to download data, you may manually download the resouces from:
Q: I have followed the instructions in README, and ran the evaluation code. As shown in README that I will get the mAP around
90%, however, I can only get about
10%mAP. Could you please give me some suggestions?
A: You may have this problem if you didn’t launch matlab at caffe's root folder, which will automatically include important folders into PATH. Two ways to solve this problem: First, run
startup.mbefore you run
run_cifar10.m. Second, open
./matlab/feat_batch.mand change line 36
d = load('./matlab/+caffe/imagenet/ilsvrc_2012_mean.mat');to
d = load('THE-PATH-OF-THIS-REPO-IN-YOU-COMPUTER/matlab/+caffe/imagenet/ilsvrc_2012_mean.mat');. Then run
run_cifar10.m.
Please feel free to leave suggestions or comments to Kevin Lin ([email protected]), Huei-Fang Yang ([email protected]) or Chu-Song Chen ([email protected])