The nature of statistical learning theory
The nature of statistical learning theory
Issues in vision modeling for perceptual video quality assessment
Signal Processing
Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
SmartColor: disambiguation framework for the colorblind
Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Content-based multimedia information retrieval: State of the art and challenges
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Efficient edge-services for colorblind users
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Accommodating color blind computer users
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Improving search engine interfaces for blind users: a case study
Universal Access in the Information Society
An interface to support color blind computer users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Efficiently answering top-k typicality queries on large databases
VLDB '07 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases
Journal on Image and Video Processing - Color in Image and Video Processing
Journal on Image and Video Processing - Color in Image and Video Processing
Pagerank for product image search
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Disability Standards for Multimedia on the Web
IEEE MultiMedia
Exploiting image contents in web search
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Considering web accessibility in information retrieval systems
ICWE'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web engineering
Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
W2Go: a travel guidance system by automatic landmark ranking
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
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This article introduces an intelligent system that accommodates colorblind users in image search. Color plays an important role in the human perception and recognition of images. However, there are about 8% of men and 0.8% of women suffering from colorblindness. We show that the existing image search techniques cannot provide satisfactory results for these users since many images will not be well perceived by them due to the loss of color information. To deal with this difficulty, we introduce a system named Accessible Image Search (AIS) to accommodate these users. Different from the general image search scheme that aims at returning more relevant results, AIS further takes into account the colorblind accessibilities of the returned results, that is, the image qualities in the eyes of colorblind users. The system contains three components: accessibility assessment, accessibility improvement, and color indication. The accessibility assessment component measures the accessibility scores of images, and consequently different reranking methods can be performed to prioritize images with high accessibilities. In the accessibility improvement component, we propose an efficient recoloring algorithm to modify the colors of the images such that they can be better perceived by colorblind users. Color indication aims to indicate the name of the interesting color in an image. We evaluate the introduced system with more than 60 queries and 20 anonymous colorblind users, and the empirical results demonstrate its effectiveness and usefulness.