In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) research, advanced technology that fuses the heterogeneous information into image clustering has drawn extensive attention recently. However, using multiple features for co-clustering images without any user feedbacks is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a Semi-Supervised Non-negative Matrix Factorization (SS-NMF) framework for image co-clustering. Our method computes new relational matrices by incorporating user provided feedbacks into images through simultaneous distance metric learning and feature selection for different low-level visual features. Using an iterative algorithm, we perform tri-factorizations of the new matrices to infer image clusters. Theoretically, we show the convergence and correctness of SS-NMF co-clustering and the advantages of SS-NMF co-clustering over existing approaches. Through extensive experiments conducted on image data sets, we demonstrate that SS-NMF provides an effective and efficient solution for image co-clustering.
['Yanhua Chen', 'Ming Dong', 'Wanggen Wan']
Image co-clustering with multi-modality features and user feedbacks