CISC: clustered image search by conceptualization

  • Authors:
  • Kaiqi Zhao;Enxun Wei;Qingyu Sui;Kenny Q. Zhu;Eric Lo

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Clustering of images from search results can improve the user experience of image search. Most of the existing systems use both visual features and surrounding texts as signals for clustering while this paper demonstrates the use of an external knowledge base to make better sense out of the text signals in a prototype system called CISC. Once we understand the semantics of the text better, the result of the clustering is significantly improved. In addition to clustering the images by their semantic entities, our system can also conceptualize each image cluster into a set of concepts to represent the meaning of the cluster.