Identification of MIR-Flickr Near-duplicate Images - A Benchmark Collection for Near-duplicate Detection

Richard Connor, Stewart MacKenzie-Leigh, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Robert Moss

2015

Abstract

There are many contexts where the automated detection of near-duplicate images is important, for example the detection of copyright infringement or images of child abuse. There are many published methods for the detection of similar and near-duplicate images; however it is still uncommon for methods to be objectively compared with each other, probably because of a lack of any good framework in which to do so. Published sets of near-duplicate images exist, but are typically small, specialist, or generated. Here, we give a new test set based on a large, serendipitously selected collection of high quality images. Having observed that the MIR-Flickr 1M image set contains a significant number of near-duplicate images, we have discovered the majority of these. We disclose a set of 1,958 near-duplicate clusters from within the set, and show that this is very likely to contain almost all of the near-duplicate pairs that exist. The main contribution of this publication is the identification of these images, which may then be used by other authors to make comparisons as they see fit. In particular however, near-duplicate classification functions may now be accurately tested for sensitivity and specificity over a general collection of images.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Connor R., MacKenzie-Leigh S., Cardillo F. and Moss R. (2015). Identification of MIR-Flickr Near-duplicate Images - A Benchmark Collection for Near-duplicate Detection . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-090-1, pages 565-571. DOI: 10.5220/0005359705650571

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={Richard Connor and Stewart MacKenzie-Leigh and Franco Alberto Cardillo and Robert Moss},
title={Identification of MIR-Flickr Near-duplicate Images - A Benchmark Collection for Near-duplicate Detection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={565-571},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005359705650571},
isbn={978-989-758-090-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Identification of MIR-Flickr Near-duplicate Images - A Benchmark Collection for Near-duplicate Detection
SN - 978-989-758-090-1
AU - Connor R.
AU - MacKenzie-Leigh S.
AU - Cardillo F.
AU - Moss R.
PY - 2015
SP - 565
EP - 571
DO - 10.5220/0005359705650571