@inproceedings{barz2018automatic, type = {inproceedings}, key = {barz2018automatic}, title = {Automatic Query Image Disambiguation for Content-Based Image Retrieval}, author = {Björn Barz and Joachim Denzler}, booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)}, year = {2018}, organization = {INSTICC}, pages = {249-256}, publisher = {SciTePress}, volume = {5}, abstract = {Query images presented to content-based image retrieval systems often have various different interpretations, making it difficult to identify the search objective pursued by the user. We propose a technique for overcoming this ambiguity, while keeping the amount of required user interaction at a minimum. To achieve this, the neighborhood of the query image is divided into coherent clusters from which the user may choose the relevant ones. A novel feedback integration technique is then employed to re-rank the entire database with regard to both the user feedback and the original query. We evaluate our approach on the publicly available MIRFLICKR-25K dataset, where it leads to a relative improvement of average precision by 23% over the baseline retrieval, which does not distinguish between different image senses.}, code = {https://github.com/cvjena/aid/}, doi = {10.5220/0006593402490256}, isbn = {978-989-758-290-5}, }