A method and system are disclosed for conducting text-based searches of images using a
visual signature associated with each image. A measure of string similarity between a query …

Online social image share websites such as Flickr and Panoramio allow users to manually
annotate their images with their own words, which can be used to facilitating image retrieval …

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for
image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. Moreover, CBIR …

In this work we describe a new statistically-based methodology to organize and retrieve
images of natural scenes by combining feature extraction, automatic clustering, automatic …

Social image tagging is becoming increasingly popular with the development of social
website, where images are annotated with arbitrary keywords called tags. Most of present …

This paper proposes a region based image retrieval system using the local colour and
texture features of image sub regions. The regions of interest (ROI) are roughly identified by …

The detection of mesoscale oceanic structures, such as upwellings or eddies, from satellite
images has significance for marine environmental studies, coastal resource management …

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro gram products, for generating
data for annotating images automatically. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an …

Collaborative tagging has emerged as a common solution for labelling and organising
online digital content. However, collaborative tagging systems typically suffer from a number …

Given that semantic Web realization is based on the critical mass of metadata accessibility
and the representation of data with formal knowledge, it needs to generate metadata that is …