Hierarchical Learning for Large-Scale Image Classification via CNN and Maximum Confidence Path

We propose a framework to integrate the large scale image data visualization with image classification. The Convolution Neural Network is used to learn the feature vector for an image. A fast algorithm is developed for inter-class similarity measurement. The spectral clustering is implemented to construct a hierarchical visual tree. Instead of the flat classification way, a hierarchical classification is designed according to the visual tree, which is transformed to a path search problem. The path with the maximum joint probability is the final solution. Experimental results on the ILSVRC2010 dataset demonstrate that our method achieves the highest top-1 and top-5 classification accuracy in comparison with 6 state-of-the-art methods.