Shape annotation for intelligent image retrieval

Annotation of shapes is an important process for semantic image retrieval. In this paper, we present a shape annotation framework that enables intelligent image retrieval by exploiting in a unified manner domain knowledge and perceptual description of shapes. A semi-supervised fuzzy clustering process is used to derive domain knowledge in terms of linguistic concepts referring to the semantic categories of shapes. For each category we derive a prototype that is a visual template for the category. A novel visual ontology is proposed to provide a description of prototypes and their salient parts. To describe parts of prototypes the visual ontology includes perceptual attributes that are defined by mimicking the analogy mechanism adopted by humans to describe the appearance of objects. The effectiveness of the developed framework as a facility for intelligent image retrieval is shown through results on a case study in the domain of fish shapes

Image Retrieval with Relational Semantic Indexing Color and Gray Images

Due to the development of digital technology large number of image is available in web and personal database and it take more time to classify and organize them. In AIA assigns label to image content with this image is automatically classified and desired image can be retrieved. Image retrieval is the one of the growing research area. To retrieve image Text and content based methods used. In recent research focus on annotation based retrieval. Image annotation represents assigning keywords to image based on its contents and it use machine learning techniques. Using image content with more relevant keywords leads fast indexing and retrieval of image from large collection of image database. Many techniques have been proposed for the last decades and it gives some improvement in retrieval performance. In this proposed work Relational Semantic Indexing (RSI) based LQT technique reduces the search time and increase the retrieval performance. This proposed method includes segmentation, feature extraction, classification, and RSI based annotation steps. This proposed method compared against IAIA, and LSH algorithm

Ranking of high-value social audiences on Twitter

Even though social media offers plenty of business opportunities, for a company to identify the right audience from the massive amount of social media data is highly challenging given finite resources and marketing budgets. In this paper, we present a ranking mechanism that is capable of identifying the top-k social audience members on Twitter based on an index. Data from three different Twitter business account owners were used in our experiments to validate this ranking mechanism. The results show that the index developed using a combination of semi-supervised and supervised learning methods is indeed generic enough to retrieve relevant audience members from the three different data sets. This approach of combining Fuzzy Match, Twitter Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Support Vector Machine Ensemble is able to leverage on the content of account owners to construct seed words and training data sets with minimal annotation efforts. We conclude that this ranking mechanism has the potential to be adopted in real-world applications for differentiating prospective customers from the general audience and enabling market segmentation for better business decision making