A human computer integrated approach for content based image retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Phani Kidambi;S. Narayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio;Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Advances in digital photography accompanied by the overwhelming usage of internet in the past few years have resulted in millions of images being uploaded on the Web (internet) every day. Most of the information is not readily accessible as the images are not organized to allow efficient browsing, searching and retrieval. The image search engines have been largely based on the annotations, as the process of image retrieval by the features and contents of the image is still in its infancy. Humans and computers have their own strengths and limitations. While the human cognitive skills limit themselves when voluminous data has to be interpreted and analyzed, computer algorithms can fail when the need for semantic knowledge is required from the image. Research in other areas has supported the claim that a hybrid computer aided and operator guided solution can potentially improve the performance of the system. Very little research has been done on the area of human computer interaction with respect to image retrieval based on annotations and image content. This paper mainly focuses on the use of human computer interaction with respect to image retrieval and also discusses the issues of semantic gap, indexing and correlation of images. A sports image data base will be used to demonstrate and evaluate our approach.