title: Hypergraph Propagation and Community Selection for Objects Retrieval
abstract: Spatial verification is a crucial technique for particular object retrieval. It utilizes spatial information for the accurate detection of true positive images. However, existing query expansion and diffusion methods cannot efficiently propagate the spatial information in an ordinary graph with scalar edge weights, resulting in low recall or precision. To tackle these problems, we propose a novel hypergraph-based framework that efficiently propagates spatial information in query time and retrieves an object in the database accurately. Additionally, we propose using the image graph's structure information through community selection technique, to measure the accuracy of the initial search result and to provide correct starting points for hypergraph propagation without heavy spatial verification computations. Experiment results on ROxford and RParis show that our method  significantly outperforms the existing query expansion and diffusion methods.
authors: Guoyuan An Yuchi Huo Sung-eui Yoon
hIndex: Sung-eui Yoon 32