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Spherical Hashing: Binary Code Embedding with Hyperspheres


Abstract:

Many binary code embedding schemes have been actively studied recently, since they can provide efficient similarity search, and compact data representations suitable for ...Show More

Abstract:

Many binary code embedding schemes have been actively studied recently, since they can provide efficient similarity search, and compact data representations suitable for handling large scale image databases. Existing binary code embedding techniques encode high-dimensional data by using hyperplane-based hashing functions. In this paper we propose a novel hypersphere-based hashing function, spherical hashing, to map more spatially coherent data points into a binary code compared to hyperplane-based hashing functions. We also propose a new binary code distance function, spherical Hamming distance, tailored for our hypersphere-based binary coding scheme, and design an efficient iterative optimization process to achieve both balanced partitioning for each hash function and independence between hashing functions. Furthermore, we generalize spherical hashing to support various similarity measures defined by kernel functions. Our extensive experiments show that our spherical hashing technique significantly outperforms state-of-the-art techniques based on hyperplanes across various benchmarks with sizes ranging from one to 75 million of GIST, BoW and VLAD descriptors. The performance gains are consistent and large, up to 100 percent improvements over the second best method among tested methods. These results confirm the unique merits of using hyperspheres to encode proximity regions in high-dimensional spaces. Finally, our method is intuitive and easy to implement.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ( Volume: 37, Issue: 11, 01 November 2015)
Page(s): 2304 - 2316
Date of Publication: 27 February 2015

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PubMed ID: 26440269

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