Toward Bridging the Annotation-Retrieval Gap in Image Search

Ritendra Datta, Weina Ge, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Abstract:

We are interested in improving image search quality by bridging the automatic image tagging and retrieval technologies. We argue that for various realworld scenarios of image search, our approach has better potential for producing meaningful search results than image retrieval alone. These cases include single and multi-word search on image collections that have some or no associated tags, and example-based searches, all performed at high speed. To achieve this, we use novel statistical modeling techniques combined with a word ontology. Through extensive experimentation, we show that our method is a promising new approach to image search.


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Citation: Ritendra Datta, Weina Ge, Jia Li and James Z. Wang, ``Toward Bridging the Annotation-Retrieval Gap in Image Search,'' IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 24-35, 2007.

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