Title
Extracting contextual information from multiuser systems for improving annotation-based retrieval of image data
Abstract
In this paper, we present an approach for incorporating contextual knowledge into a multiuser image retrieval system which is based on annotations. Although the most existing keyword-based systems are expanded by conceptual knowledge (e.g. ontologies) modeling the topics in which the user is interested in, there still remain some unresolved problems, like existing differences in interpretation of image contents or inconsistencies in keyword assignments among different users. In our approach, multiple sources of information which are modeled as different annotation ontologies are brought together in order to extract contextual information, and thus attenuate users' subjectivity in content description. Finally, we evaluate our introduced approach on a real data set of sports images. The experiments show that our approach provides considerable retrieval quality, already in the first search iteration, which makes an additional query refinement dispensable. The results can even be further improved by applying lexical analysis for strings and error elimination methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1460096.1460122
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Keywords
Field
DocType
image data,considerable retrieval quality,sports image,existing keyword-based system,contextual knowledge,contextual information,annotation-based retrieval,conceptual knowledge,different annotation ontology,multiuser image retrieval system,image content,multiuser system,different user,image annotation,lexical analysis,image retrieval
Ontology (information science),Contextual information,Automatic image annotation,Annotation,Information retrieval,Computer science,Image retrieval,Lexical analysis,Contextual image classification,Visual Word
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johanna Vompras173.24
Thomas Scholz2324.18
Stefan Conrad310.69