Conceptual image retrieval over a large scale database

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Popescu;Hervé Le Borgne;Pierre-Alain Moëllic

  • Affiliations:
  • CEA, LIST, Laboratoire d'ingénierie de la connaissance multimédia et multilingue, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France;CEA, LIST, Laboratoire d'ingénierie de la connaissance multimédia et multilingue, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France;CEA, LIST, Laboratoire d'ingénierie de la connaissance multimédia et multilingue, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'08 Proceedings of the 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Image retrieval in large-scale databases is currently based on a textual chains matching procedure. However, this approach requires an accurate annotation of images, which is not the case on the Web. To tackle this issue, we propose a reformulation method that reduces the influence of noisy image annotations. We extract a ranked list of related concepts for terms in the query from WordNet and Wikipedia, and use them to expand the initial query. Then some visual concepts are used to re-rank the results for queries containing, explicitly or implicitly, visual cues. First evaluations on a diversified corpus of 150000 images were convincing since the proposed system was ranked 4th and 2nd at the WikipediaMM task of the ImageCLEF 2008 campaign [1].