Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...
We propose a probabilistic graphical model to represent weakly annotated images1 . This model is used to classify images and automatically extend existing annotations to new image...
In this paper a novel "Smart Media" concept for semantic-based multimedia security and management is proposed. This concept is based on interactive object segmentation (...
This paper proposes a novel approach for the construction and use of multi-feature spaces in image classification. The proposed technique combines low-level descriptors and defines...
We propose measuring "visualness" of concepts with images on the Web, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. This is a new application of "Web i...