Multimodal Sentiment Classification(MSC)uses multimodal data,such as images and texts,to identify the users'sentiment polarities from the information posted by users on the Internet.MSC has attracted considerable ...Multimodal Sentiment Classification(MSC)uses multimodal data,such as images and texts,to identify the users'sentiment polarities from the information posted by users on the Internet.MSC has attracted considerable attention because of its wide applications in social computing and opinion mining.However,improper correlation strategies can cause erroneous fusion as the texts and the images that are unrelated to each other may integrate.Moreover,simply concatenating them modal by modal,even with true correlation,cannot fully capture the features within and between modals.To solve these problems,this paper proposes a Cross-Modal Complementary Network(CMCN)with hierarchical fusion for MSC.The CMCN is designed as a hierarchical structure with three key modules,namely,the feature extraction module to extract features from texts and images,the feature attention module to learn both text and image attention features generated by an image-text correlation generator,and the cross-modal hierarchical fusion module to fuse features within and between modals.Such a CMCN provides a hierarchical fusion framework that can fully integrate different modal features and helps reduce the risk of integrating unrelated modal features.Extensive experimental results on three public datasets show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
Image classification based on bag-of-words（BOW）has a broad application prospect in pattern recognition field but the shortcomings such as single feature and low classification accuracy are apparent.To deal with this...Image classification based on bag-of-words（BOW）has a broad application prospect in pattern recognition field but the shortcomings such as single feature and low classification accuracy are apparent.To deal with this problem,this paper proposes to combine two ingredients：（i）Three features with functions of mutual complementation are adopted to describe the images,including pyramid histogram of words（PHOW）,pyramid histogram of color（PHOC）and pyramid histogram of orientated gradients（PHOG）.（ii）An adaptive feature-weight adjusted image categorization algorithm based on the SVM and the decision level fusion of multiple features are employed.Experiments are carried out on the Caltech101 database,which confirms the validity of the proposed approach.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy rate of the proposed method is improved by 7%-14%higher than that of the traditional BOW methods.With full utilization of global,local and spatial information,the algorithm is much more complete and flexible to describe the feature information of the image through the multi-feature fusion and the pyramid structure composed by image spatial multi-resolution decomposition.Significant improvements to the classification accuracy are achieved as the result.展开更多
基金国家自然科学基金资助项目(31761133019)国家现代农业产业技术体系资助(CARS-28-21)The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)中德科技国际合作项目(328017493/GRK 2366)。
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2020AAA0104903)。
文摘Multimodal Sentiment Classification(MSC)uses multimodal data,such as images and texts,to identify the users'sentiment polarities from the information posted by users on the Internet.MSC has attracted considerable attention because of its wide applications in social computing and opinion mining.However,improper correlation strategies can cause erroneous fusion as the texts and the images that are unrelated to each other may integrate.Moreover,simply concatenating them modal by modal,even with true correlation,cannot fully capture the features within and between modals.To solve these problems,this paper proposes a Cross-Modal Complementary Network(CMCN)with hierarchical fusion for MSC.The CMCN is designed as a hierarchical structure with three key modules,namely,the feature extraction module to extract features from texts and images,the feature attention module to learn both text and image attention features generated by an image-text correlation generator,and the cross-modal hierarchical fusion module to fuse features within and between modals.Such a CMCN provides a hierarchical fusion framework that can fully integrate different modal features and helps reduce the risk of integrating unrelated modal features.Extensive experimental results on three public datasets show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
基金Supported by Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61321002)Projects of Major International(Regional)Jiont Research Program NSFC(61120106010)+1 种基金Beijing Education Committee Cooperation Building Foundation ProjectProgram for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(IRT1208)
文摘Image classification based on bag-of-words（BOW）has a broad application prospect in pattern recognition field but the shortcomings such as single feature and low classification accuracy are apparent.To deal with this problem,this paper proposes to combine two ingredients：（i）Three features with functions of mutual complementation are adopted to describe the images,including pyramid histogram of words（PHOW）,pyramid histogram of color（PHOC）and pyramid histogram of orientated gradients（PHOG）.（ii）An adaptive feature-weight adjusted image categorization algorithm based on the SVM and the decision level fusion of multiple features are employed.Experiments are carried out on the Caltech101 database,which confirms the validity of the proposed approach.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy rate of the proposed method is improved by 7%-14%higher than that of the traditional BOW methods.With full utilization of global,local and spatial information,the algorithm is much more complete and flexible to describe the feature information of the image through the multi-feature fusion and the pyramid structure composed by image spatial multi-resolution decomposition.Significant improvements to the classification accuracy are achieved as the result.
