This paper introduces a web image dataset created by NUS’s Lab for Media Search. The dataset includes: (1) 269,648 images and the associated tags from Flickr, with a total of 5,...
To bridge the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval, detecting meaningful visual entities (e.g. faces, sky, foliage, buildings etc) in image content and classifying images...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
Bag-of-features (BoF) deriving from local keypoints has recently appeared promising for object and scene classification. Whether BoF can naturally survive the challenges such as ...
The visual appearance of an image is closely associated with its low-level features. Identifying the set of features that best characterizes the image is useful for tasks such as ...