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A Image Retrieval Model Based on Weighted Visual Features Determined by Relevance Feedback  

Song, Ji-Young (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Kim, Woo-Cheol (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Kim, Seung-Woo (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Park, Sang-Hyun (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Abstract
Increasing amount of digital images requires more accurate and faster way of image retrieval. So far, image retrieval method includes content-based retrieval and keyword based retrieval, the former utilizing visual features such as color and brightness and the latter utilizing keywords which describe the image. However, the effectiveness of these methods as to providing the exact images the user wanted has been under question. Hence, many researchers have been working on relevance feedback, a process in which responses from the user are given as a feedback during the retrieval session in order to define user’s need and provide improved result. Yet, the methods which have employed relevance feedback also have drawbacks since several feedbacks are necessary to have appropriate result and the feedback information can not be reused. In this paper, a novel retrieval model has been proposed which annotates an image with a keyword and modifies the confidence level of the keyword in response to the user’s feedback. In the proposed model, not only the images which have received positive feedback but also the other images with the visual features similar to the features used to distinguish the positive image are subjected to confidence modification. This enables modifying large amount of images with only a few feedbacks ultimately leading to faster and more accurate retrieval result. An experiment has been performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and the result has demonstrated rapid increase in recall and precision while receiving the same number of feedbacks.
Keywords
Image retrieval; content based image retrieval; relevance feedback; multimedia database;
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