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Finding pictures in context

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Abstract

This research explores the interaction of textual and photographic information in multimodal documents. The WWW may be viewed as the ultimate, large-scale, dynamically changing, multimedia database. Finding useful information from the WWW without encountering numerous false positives (the current case) poses a challenge to multimedia information retrieval systems (MMIR). We exploit the fact that images do not appear in isolation, but rather with accompanying, collateral text. Taken independently, existing techniques for pictue retrieval using (i) collateral text-based and (ii) image-based methods have several limitations. Text-based methods, while very powerful in matching context, do not have access to image content. Image-based methods compute general similarity between images and provide limited semantics. Our research focuses on improving precision and recall in a MMIR system by interactively combining text processing with image processing (IP) in both the indexing and retrieval phases. A picture search engine is demonstrated as an application.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval - IAPR International Workshop, MINAR 1998, Proceedings
EditorsHorace H.S. Ip, Arnold W.M. Smeulders
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages109-123
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540648267, 9783540648260
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998
EventIAPR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval, MINAR 1998 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Aug 13 1998Aug 14 1998

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1464
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceIAPR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval, MINAR 1998
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period08/13/9808/14/98

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