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A probabilistic semantic model for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval

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A probabilistic semantic model for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval
This paper addresses automatic image annotation problem and its application to multi-modal image retrieval. The contribution of our work is three-fold. (1) We propose a probabilistic semantic model in which the visual features and the textual words are connected via a hidden layer which constitutes the semantic concepts to be discovered to explicitly exploit the synergy among the modalities. (2) The association of visual features and textual words is determined in a Bayesian framework such that the confidence of the association can be provided. (3) Extensive evaluation on a large-scale, visually and semantically diverse image collection crawled from Web is reported to evaluate the prototype system based on the model. In the proposed probabilistic model, a hidden concept layer which connects the visual feature and the word layer is discovered by fitting a generative model to the training image and annotation words through an Expectation-Maximization (EM) based iterative learning proced...
Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Mingjing Li,
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where MMS
Authors Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang
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