An Efficient Approach for Geo-Multimedia Cross-Modal Retrieval

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel geo-multimedia cross-modal retrieval framework that combines deep learning, semantic matching, and a hybrid indexing structure to efficiently search geographically tagged multimedia data.

Contribution

It proposes the first definition of $k$NN geo-multimedia cross-modal queries and develops a comprehensive framework including semantic matching and a hybrid index for efficient retrieval.

Findings

Outperforms existing methods in accuracy and efficiency

Effectively bridges semantic gaps between modalities

Demonstrates scalability on large datasets

Abstract

Due to the rapid development of mobile Internet techniques, cloud computation and popularity of online social networking and location-based services, massive amount of multimedia data with geographical information is generated and uploaded to the Internet. In this paper, we propose a novel type of cross-modal multimedia retrieval called geo-multimedia cross-modal retrieval which aims to search out a set of geo-multimedia objects based on geographical distance proximity and semantic similarity between different modalities. Previous studies for cross-modal retrieval and spatial keyword search cannot address this problem effectively because they do not consider multimedia data with geo-tags and do not focus on this type of query. In order to address this problem efficiently, we present the definition of $k$NN geo-multimedia cross-modal query at the first time and introduce relevant conceptions such as cross-modal semantic representation space. To bridge the semantic gap between different modalities, we propose a method named cross-modal semantic matching which contains two important component, i.e., CorrProj and LogsTran, which aims to construct a common semantic representation space for cross-modal semantic similarity measurement. Besides, we designed a framework based on deep learning techniques to implement common semantic representation space construction. In addition, a novel hybrid indexing structure named GMR-Tree combining geo-multimedia data and R-Tree is presented and a efficient $k$NN search algorithm called $k$GMCMS is designed. Comprehensive experimental evaluation on real and synthetic dataset clearly demonstrates that our solution outperforms the-state-of-the-art methods.