Deep Hashing Based on VAE‐GAN for Efficient Similarity Retrieval

Abstract

Inspired by the recent advances in generative networks, we propose a VAE-GAN based hashing framework for fast image retrieval. The method combines a Variational autoencoder (VAE) with a Generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate content preserving images for pairwise hashing learning. By accepting real image and systhesized image in a pairwise form, a semantic perserving feature mapping model is learned under a adversarial generative process. Each image feature vector in the pairwise is converted to a hash codes, which are used in a pairwise ranking loss that aims to preserve relative similarities on images. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method shows substantial improvement over the state-of-the-art hashing methods.