Adaptive Multi-modal Fusion Hashing via Hadamard Matrix

Abstract

Hashing plays an important role in information retrieval, due to its low storage and high speed of processing. Among the techniques available in the literature, multi-modal hashing, which can encode heterogeneous multi-modal features into compact hash codes, has received particular attention. Most of the existing multi-modal hashing methods adopt the fixed weighting factors to fuse multiple modalities for any query data, which cannot capture the variation of different queries. Besides, many methods introduce hyper-parameters to balance many regularization terms that make the optimization harder. Meanwhile, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to set proper parameter values. The limitations may significantly hinder their promotion in real applications. In this paper, we propose a simple, yet effective method that is inspired by the Hadamard matrix. The proposed method captures the multi-modal feature information in an adaptive manner and preserves the discriminative semantic information in the hash codes. Our framework is flexible and involves a very few hyper-parameters. Extensive experimental results show the method is effective and achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.