Hierarchical ensemble learning for multimedia categorization and autoannotation

This paper presents a hierarchical ensemble learning method applied in the context of multimedia autoannotation. In contrast to the standard multiple-category classification setting that assumes independent, non-overlapping and exhaustive set of categories, the proposed approach models explicitly the hierarchical relationships among target classes and estimates their relevance to a query as a trade-off between the goodness of fit to a given category description and its inherent uncertainty. The promising results of the empirical evaluation confirm the viability of the proposed approach, validated in comparison to several techniques of ensemble learning, as well as with different type of baseline classifiers