Gathering and Ranking Photos of Named Entities with High Precision, High Recall, and Diversity

Knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and automated extraction methods like those of DBpedia enable the construction of large machine-processible knowledge bases with relational facts about entities. These endeavors lack multimodal data like photos and videos of people and places. While photos of famous entities are abundant on the Internet, they are much harder to retrieve for less popular entities such as notable computer scientists or regionally interesting churches. Querying the entity names in image search engines yields large candidate lists, but they often have low precision and unsatisfactory recall. Our goal is to populate a knowledge base with photos of named entities, with high precision, high recall, and diversity of photos for a given entity. We harness relational facts about entities for generating expanded queries to retrieve different candidate lists from image search engines. We use a weighted voting method to determine better rankings of an entity's photo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: WSDM
• Authors: Bilyana Taneva, Mouna Kacimi, Gerhard Weikum
• Keywords: Data Mining, Famous Entities, Image Search Engines, Popular Entities, WSDM 2010