Analysis of User Image Descriptions and Automatic Image Indexing Vocabularies: An Exploratory Study (original) (raw)

2004

Abstract

Abstract This study explores the terms assigned by users to index, manage, and describe images and compares them to indexing terms derived automatically by systems for image retrieval. Results of this study indicate that userderived indexing vocabulary largely reflects what users see in the image or what they perceive as the overall topic of an image. This is in contrast to system-derived indexing wherein terms are extracted from existing text surrounding the image. In many cases, the surrounding text does not describe the image, ...

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