Similarity measures for efficient content-based image retrieval
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Abstract
New similarity measures for comparing two colour histograms are described: the dissimilitude distance DS* and the similarity distance E. The latter is incorporated into the exponentiation part of the Gibbs distribution and the generalised Dirichlet mixture, while the former is compared to five similarity measures: L1, L2 (Euclidean distance), the similarity measure E in addition to Gibbs and Dirichlet distributions integrating E. The proposed measures are implemented into a system called MIRA for an efficient content-based image mining and retrieval. In order to overcome the limitations (and inappropriateness) of some previous information retrieval measures in evaluating the efficiency of an image retrieval process, three variants of a new effectiveness measure are proposed and experimented on an image collection for various similarity measures, including L1 and L2. Experimental results show that retrieval effectiveness is the highest for E + Dirichlet and the lowest for the Euclidean distance. They also illustrate the superiority of our approach towards similarity analysis and retrieval effectiveness computation both in the L* C* H* and CIECAM02 colour spaces.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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