Re: [help-GIFT] Introducing support for "active learning" queries

[David Squire]

Ralf Juengling wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking about how to introduce support for "active learning"
> queries in MRML with minimal changes to the protocol.
>
> To underline the problem first: What's different with user relevance
> in the "active learning" (AL) setting?
> In both, the "classical" as well as the AL query-scheme, the CBIRS
> prompts the user to "label" some images shown to him (i.e. to say
> which are relevant and which are not). In the classical setting,
> the images shown to the user are the "the images to be labeled by
> the user in order to make more precise, what she is looking for"
> and -- at the same time -- they are the "current best search result".
> The idea in AL is to distinguish these two image sets.

Sounds a lot like what we did with TrackingViper, eh Wolfgang? What ever
happened to that idea of "panels"?

Cheers,

David


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