TY - GEN
T1 - Finding visual concepts by web image mining
AU - Yanai, Keiji
AU - Barnard, Kobus
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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 image mining". To know which concept has visually discriminative power is important for image recognition, since not all concepts are related to visual contents. Mining image data on the Web with our method enables it. Our method performs probabilistic region selection for images and computes an entropy measure which represents "visualness" of concepts. In the experiments, we collected about forty thousand images from the Web for 150 concepts. We examined which concepts are suitable for annotation of image contents.
AB - 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 image mining". To know which concept has visually discriminative power is important for image recognition, since not all concepts are related to visual contents. Mining image data on the Web with our method enables it. Our method performs probabilistic region selection for images and computes an entropy measure which represents "visualness" of concepts. In the experiments, we collected about forty thousand images from the Web for 150 concepts. We examined which concepts are suitable for annotation of image contents.
KW - Image recognition
KW - Probabilistic method
KW - Web image mining
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U2 - 10.1145/1135777.1135946
DO - 10.1145/1135777.1135946
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34250630123
SN - 1595933239
SN - 9781595933232
T3 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
SP - 923
EP - 924
BT - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
T2 - 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
Y2 - 23 May 2006 through 26 May 2006
ER -