Papers › Attention-based Ensemble for Deep Metric Learning

Attention-based Ensemble for Deep Metric Learning

2 Apr 2018ECCV 2018 9arXiv:1804.00382archive 2025-07-28

Wonsik Kim, Bhavya Goyal, Kunal Chawla, Jungmin Lee, Keunjoo Kwon

Deep metric learning aims to learn an embedding function, modeled as deep neural network. This embedding function usually puts semantically similar images close while dissimilar images far from each other in the learned embedding space. Recently, ensemble has been applied to deep metric learning to yield state-of-the-art results. As one important aspect of ensemble, the learners should be diverse in their feature embeddings. To this end, we propose an attention-based ensemble, which uses multiple attention masks, so that each learner can attend to different parts of the object. We also propose a divergence loss, which encourages diversity among the learners. The proposed method is applied to the standard benchmarks of deep metric learning and experimental results show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin on image retrieval tasks.

PaperPDFConference PDF

In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

Code

No code repository is listed for this paper in the archive or in Syntology's graph.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.

Tasks

DiversityImage RetrievalMetric LearningRetrieval

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Retrieval In-Shop ABE-8 R@1 87.3 #7 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval SOP ABE-8 R@1 76.3 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Metric Learning CARS196 ABE-8-512 R@1 85.2 #27 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Metric Learning CUB-200-2011 ABE-8-512 R@1 60.6 #26 of 30 Archive leaderboard report

Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections