A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry

Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities, marketing materials etc are needed to be managed and fetched in an efficient way to support and facilitate bu...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Shuxin, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14652
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Potdar, Vidyasagar
Chang, Elizabeth
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Chang, Elizabeth
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description Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities, marketing materials etc are needed to be managed and fetched in an efficient way to support and facilitate business processes. Current techniques for IR including keyword based, content based and ontology based image retrieval have several unsolved issues. We promote the ontology based IR approach and focus on two issues: firstly, the difficulty in constructing ontologies of images for those industries without ontology professionals, and, secondly, none of the existing approaches consider image content ranking in search results. In this paper, we propose a practical framework to tackle these issues by introducing an Abstract Image Ontology that serves as a blueprint of image ontologies and by incorporating a Concept Instance Ranking Scheme to allow ranking of each of the contents expressed in images, thus providing extra information for IR process. An application scenario in the tourism industry area is also presented.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-146522017-09-13T15:58:10Z A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry Zhao, Shuxin Potdar, Vidyasagar Chang, Elizabeth Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities, marketing materials etc are needed to be managed and fetched in an efficient way to support and facilitate business processes. Current techniques for IR including keyword based, content based and ontology based image retrieval have several unsolved issues. We promote the ontology based IR approach and focus on two issues: firstly, the difficulty in constructing ontologies of images for those industries without ontology professionals, and, secondly, none of the existing approaches consider image content ranking in search results. In this paper, we propose a practical framework to tackle these issues by introducing an Abstract Image Ontology that serves as a blueprint of image ontologies and by incorporating a Concept Instance Ranking Scheme to allow ranking of each of the contents expressed in images, thus providing extra information for IR process. An application scenario in the tourism industry area is also presented. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14652 10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375079 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Zhao, Shuxin
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Chang, Elizabeth
A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title_full A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title_fullStr A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title_full_unstemmed A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title_short A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
title_sort practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14652