journal article·2025-02-26Open access

A Novel Approach to Incremental Diffusion for Continuous Dataset Updates in Image Retrieval

Zili Tang, Fan Yang, Jiong Lou, Jie Li

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 5

Abstract

Diffusion is well known for its success in improving retrieval performance by exploiting the local structure of data distribution. Some recent works have focused on improving its efficiency by shifting the computing burden offline. However, we find that efficient offline diffusion handles continuously updating datasets with difficulty, which directly hinders its application in the real world. Unlike previous methods that apply diffusion to the entire gallery, we introduce an anchor graph to serve as an agent of the complete gallery graph. By doing that, we empower diffusion with the ability of retrieving newly added images at acceptable computational cost. We demonstrate that our proposed method is a good approximation of diffusion featuring fast online search speed and the ability of handling growing data. Moreover, experiments on benchmark datasets show that the proposed method outperforms the state of the art by a large margin with proper parameter settings.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques · Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques · Advanced Data Compression Techniques

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Affiliations

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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