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- Title
Effective image annotation for searches using multilevel semantics.
- Authors
Pu-Jen Cheng; Lee-Feng Chien
- Abstract
There is an increasing need for automatic image annotation tools to enable effective image searching in digital libraries. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic model for image annotation based on content-based image retrieval techniques and statistical analysis. One key difficulty in applying statistical methods to the annotation of images is that the number of manually labeled images used to train the methods is normally insufficient. Numerous keywords cannot be correctly assigned to appropriate images due to lacking or missing information in the labeled image databases. To deal with this challenging problem, we also propose an enhanced model in which the annotated keywords of a new image are defined in terms of their similarity at different semantic levels, including the image level, keyword level, and concept level. To avoid missing some relevant keywords, the model labels the keywords with the same concepts as the new image. Our experimental results show that the proposed models are effective for annotating images that have different qualities of training data.
- Subjects
DIGITAL libraries; IMAGE processing; STATISTICS; PROBABILITY theory; DATABASES
- Publication
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2004, Vol 4, Issue 4, p258
- ISSN
1432-5012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00799-004-0090-z