Fuzzy aggregation of image features in content-based image retrieval
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The obstacle of generating hybrid queries within the context of content-based image retrieval is still very real. In attempts to overcome this, fuzzy aggregation can be used to combine single, simple index queries into larger, more complex ones. The paper outlines the use of a fuzzy aggregation technique for hybrid querying which has the ability to adjust its behavior according to operator-controlled parameters. The resulting aggregator can be viewed as a feature-adaptive overall similarity measure. We limit the scope of the aggregator to queries involving color content, color coverage, and horizontal/vertical trends, and apply it to a media database comprised of Corel images of fixed size. Preliminary results show promise and illustrate that hybrid queries using the fuzzy aggregator are effective in their ability to retrieve relevant images while suppressing erroneous retrievals when compared to simple, single-feature queries. In addition, the results obtained are at a minimum comparable to multiple-feature queries generated using a weighted mean approach, but exhibiting scalability and greater flexibility in parameter adjustment.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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