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Automatic image annotation techniques are proposed for overcoming the so-called semantic-gap between image low-level feature and high-level concept in content-based image retrieval systems. Due to the limitations of techniques, current state-of-the-art automatic image annotation models still produce some irrelevant concepts to image semantics, which are an obstacle to getting high-quality image retrieval. In this paper we focus on improving image annotation to facilitate web image retrieval. The novelty of our work is to use both WordNet and textual information in web documents to refine original coarse annotations produced by the classic Continuous Relevance Model (CRM). Each keyword in annotations is associated with a certain weight, and larger the weight is, more related to image semantics the corresponding concept is. The experimental results show that the refined annotations improve image retrieval to some extent, compared to the original coarse annotations.
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Huang, P., Bu, J., Chen, C., Liu, K., Qiu, G. (2008). Improve Web Image Retrieval by Refining Image Annotations. In: Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, WY., Sakai, T., Wong, KF., Zhou, G. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_43
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