Cross-Modal Discrimination Hashing Retrieval Using Variable Length

Abstract

Fast cross-modal retrieval technology based on hash coding has become a hot topic for the rich multimodal data (text, image, audio, etc.), especially security and privacy challenges in the Internet of Things and mobile edge computing. However, most methods based on hash coding are only mapped to the common hash coding space, and it relaxes the two value constraints of hash coding. Therefore, the learning of the multimodal hash coding may not be sufficient and effective to express the original multimodal data and cause the hash encoding category to be less discriminatory. For the sake of solving these problems, this paper proposes a method of mapping each modal data to the optimal length of hash coding space, respectively, and then the hash encoding of each modal data is solved by the discrete cross-modal hash algorithm of two value constraints. Finally, the similarity of multimodal data is compared in the potential space. The experimental results of the cross-model retrieval based on variable hash coding are better than that of the relative comparison methods in the WIKI data set, NUS-WIDE data set, as well as MIRFlickr data set, and the method we proposed is proved to be feasible and effective.