IML-GCN: Improved Multi-Label Graph Convolutional Network for Efficient yet Precise Image Classification

In this paper, we propose the Improved Multi-Label Graph Convolutional Network (IML-GCN) as a precise and efficient framework for multi-label image classification. Although previous approaches have shown great performance, they usually make use of very large architectures. To handle this, we propose to combine the small version of a newly introduced network called TResNet with an extended version of Multi-label Graph Convolution Networks (ML-GCN); therefore ensuring the learning of label correlation while reducing the size of the overall network. The proposed approach considers a novel image feature embedding instead of using word embeddings. In fact, the latter are learned from words and not images making them inadequate for the task of multi-label image classification. Experimental results show that our framework competes with the state-of-the-art on two multi-label image benchmarks in terms of both precision and memory requirements.