Semantics-based image retrieval by text mining on environmental texts

Hsin-Chang Yang; Chung-Hong Lee

doi:10.1117/12.476039

13 January 2003 Semantic-based image retrieval by text mining on environmental texts

Hsin-Chang Yang, Chung-Hong Lee

Proceedings Volume 5010, Document Recognition and Retrieval X; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476039
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel method to bridge the 'semantic gap' between a user's information need and the image content. The semantic gap describes the major deficiency of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems which use visual features extracted from images to describe the images. We conquer the deficiency by extracting semantic of an image from the environmental texts around it. Since an image generally co-exists with accompany texts in various formats, we may rely on such environmental texts to discover the semantic of the image. A text mining approach based on self-organizing maps is used to extract the semantic of an image from its environmental texts. We performed experiments on a small set of images and obtained promising results.

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Hsin-Chang Yang and Chung-Hong Lee "Semantic-based image retrieval by text mining on environmental texts", Proc. SPIE 5010, Document Recognition and Retrieval X, (13 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476039

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