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AnnoSearch: Image Auto-Annotation by Search | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

AnnoSearch: Image Auto-Annotation by Search


Abstract:

Although it has been studied for several years by computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we presen...Show More

Abstract:

Although it has been studied for several years by computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we present AnnoSearch, a novel way to annotate images using search and data mining technologies. Leveraging the Web-scale images, we solve this problem in two-steps: 1) searching for semantically and visually similar images on the Web, 2) and mining annotations from them. Firstly, at least one accurate keyword is required to enable text-based search for a set of semantically similar images. Then content-based search is performed on this set to retrieve visually similar images. At last, annotations are mined from the descriptions (titles, URLs and surrounding texts) of these images. It worth highlighting that to ensure the efficiency, high dimensional visual features are mapped to hash codes which significantly speed up the content-based search process. Our proposed approach enables annotating with unlimited vocabulary, which is impossible for all existing approaches. Experimental results on real web images show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
Date of Conference: 17-22 June 2006
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 09 October 2006
Print ISBN:0-7695-2597-0
Print ISSN: 1063-6919
Conference Location: New York, NY, USA

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