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A machine learning approach to determining tag relevance in geotagged Flickr imagery

Hughes, Mark, Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 and O'Connor, Noel E. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 (2012) A machine learning approach to determining tag relevance in geotagged Flickr imagery. In: The 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2012), 23-25 May 2012, Dublin. ISBN 978-1-4673-0789-5

Abstract
We present a novel machine learning based approach to de- termining the semantic relevance of community contributed image annotations for the purposes of image retrieval. Cur- rent large scale community image retrieval systems typically rely on human annotated tags which are subjectively assigned and may not provide useful or semantically meaningful la- bels to the images. Homogeneous tags which fail to distin- guish between are a common occurrence, which can lead to poor search effectiveness on this data. We described a method to improve text based image retrieval systems by eliminating generic or non relevant image tags. To classify tag relevance, we propose a novel feature set based on statistical information available for each tag within a collection of geotagged images harvested from Flickr. Using this feature set machine learning models are trained to classify the relevance of each tag to its associated image. The goal of this process is to allow for rich and accurate captioning of these images, with the objective of improving the accuracy of text based image retrieval systems. A thorough evaluation is carried out using a human annotated benchmark collection of Flickr tags.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Benchmark testing; Cities and towns; Image retrieval; Machine learning; Measurement; Semantics; Support vector machines
Subjects:Computer Science > Image processing
Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Published in: The 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services. . IEEE. ISBN 978-1-4673-0789-5
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumb...
Copyright Information:© 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:17139
Deposited On:16 Jul 2012 10:40 by Mark Hughes . Last Modified 22 Oct 2018 14:58
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