6. Image retrieval

Image retrieval has been receiving increasing interest due to the vast amount of images publicly available on the Internet. Most image sharing sites, such as FlickR, allow for text/tag-based image searching. In the research community, content-based image retrieval has been under investigation since the early 1990s. The tutorial will give show approaches to fusing the efforts from content-based image retrieval with the available text-based image searching solutions, including multi-lingual approaches. Therefore, a short introduction into content-based image retrieval and text-retrieval will be given. Different approaches to fusing these will be discussed and further topics such as user-interaction, retrieval system architecture, and benchmarking issues will be presented.