Title
Are Clickthroughs Useful for Image Labelling?
Abstract
In this paper we look at how images can be labelled as a result of click throughs from searches. One approach acts as a filter on image searches specifically, while the other approach propagates labels to images from their containing pages, where those pages were labelled themselves using clickthrough as a filter on text search. Then the paper reports on an experiment where users ranked for relevance six methods for labelling images, comparing the two clickthrough-based methods with flickr's amateur explicit labelling, Getty's professional explicit labelling, Google's standard image search, and the new Google Image Labeller. As well as comparing the accuracy of the proposed image labelling methods and discovering that automatic methods outperform explicit human labelling methods, the experiment suggests clickthrough data is reliable with very few clicks for image classification purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.35
Web Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
information science,search engines,intelligent agent,image classification,labeling
Data mining,Intelligent agent,Search engine,Information retrieval,Ranking,Computer science,Full text search,Information science,Amateur,Labelling,Contextual image classification
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
1
6
0.45
References 
Authors
18
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Helen Ashman176766.74
Michael Antunovic2151.96
Christoph Donner360.45
Rebecca Frith460.45
Eric Rebelos560.45
Jan-Felix Schmakeit691.20
Gavin Smith7435.31
Mark Truran828614.43