Multi-task multi-label multiple instance learning

For automatic object detection tasks,large amounts of training images are usually labeled to achieve more reliable training of the object classifiers;this is cost-expensive since it requires hiring professionals to label large-scale training images.When a large number of object classes come into view,the issue of obtaining a large enough amount of the labeled training images becomes more critical.There are three potential solutions to reduce the burden for image labeling:(1) allowing people to provide the object labels loosely at the image level rather than at the object level(e.g.,loosely-tagged images without identifying the exact object locations in the images) ;(2) harnessing large-scale collaboratively-tagged images that are available on the Internet;and,(3) developing new machine learning algorithms that can directly leverage large-scale collaboratively-or loosely-tagged images for achieving more eective training of a large number of object classifiers.Based on these observations,a multi-task multi-label multiple instance learning(MTML-MIL) algorithm is developed in this paper by leveraging both inter-object correlations and large-scale loosely-labeled images for object classifier training.By seamlessly integrating multi-task learning,multi-label learning,and multiple instance learning,our MTML-MIL algorithm can achieve more accurate training of a large number of inter-related object classifiers(where an object network is constructed for determining the inter-related learning tasks directly in the feature space rather than in the label space) .Our experimental results have shown that our MTML-MIL algorithm can achieve higher detection accuracy rates for automatic object detection.