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Image mining: trends and developments
[Abstract]: Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in very large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal useful information to the human users. Image mining deals with the extraction of implicit knowledge, image data relationship, or other patterns not explicitly stored in the images. Image mining is more than just an extension of data mining to image domain. It is an interdisciplinary endeavor that draws upon expertise in computer vision, image processing, image retrieval, data mining, machine learning, database, and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we will examine the research issues in image mining, current developments in image mining, particularly, image mining frameworks, state-of-the-art techniques and systems. We will also identify some future research directions for image mining
Digital Image Access & Retrieval
The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio
Image mining: issues, frameworks and techniques
[Abstract]: Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in significantly large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal useful information to the human users. Image mining deals with the extraction of implicit knowledge, image data relationship, or other patterns not explicitly stored in the images. Image mining is more than just an extension of data mining to image domain. It is an
interdisciplinary endeavor that draws upon expertise in
computer vision, image processing, image retrieval, data
mining, machine learning, database, and artificial
intelligence. Despite the development of many
applications and algorithms in the individual research
fields cited above, research in image mining is still in its infancy. In this paper, we will examine the research issues in image mining, current developments in image mining, particularly, image mining frameworks, state-of-the-art techniques and systems. We will also identify some future research directions for image mining at the end of this paper
An information-driven framework for image mining
[Abstract]: Image mining systems that can automatically extract semantically meaningful information (knowledge) from image data are increasingly in demand. The fundamental challenge in image mining is to determine how low-level, pixel representation contained in a raw image or
image sequence can be processed to identify high-level spatial objects and relationships. To meet
this challenge, we propose an efficient information-driven framework for image mining. We distinguish four levels of information: the Pixel Level, the Object Level, the Semantic Concept Level, and the Pattern and Knowledge Level. High-dimensional indexing schemes and retrieval
techniques are also included in the framework to support the flow of information among the levels. We believe this framework represents the first step towards capturing the different levels of information present in image data and addressing the issues and challenges of discovering useful
patterns/knowledge from each level
The relationship between IR and multimedia databases
Modern extensible database systems support multimedia data through ADTs. However, because of the problems with multimedia query formulation, this support is not sufficient.\ud
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Multimedia querying requires an iterative search process involving many different representations of the objects in the database. The support that is needed is very similar to the processes in information retrieval.\ud
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Based on this observation, we develop the miRRor architecture for multimedia query processing. We design a layered framework based on information retrieval techniques, to provide a usable query interface to the multimedia database.\ud
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First, we introduce a concept layer to enable reasoning over low-level concepts in the database.\ud
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Second, we add an evidential reasoning layer as an intermediate between the user and the concept layer.\ud
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Third, we add the functionality to process the users' relevance feedback.\ud
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We then adapt the inference network model from text retrieval to an evidential reasoning model for multimedia query processing.\ud
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We conclude with an outline for implementation of miRRor on top of the Monet extensible database system
CHORUS Deliverable 4.3: Report from CHORUS workshops on national initiatives and metadata
Minutes of the following Workshops:
• National Initiatives on Multimedia Content Description and Retrieval, Geneva, October 10th, 2007.
• Metadata in Audio-Visual/Multimedia production and archiving, Munich, IRT, 21st – 22nd November 2007
Workshop in Geneva 10/10/2007
This highly successful workshop was organised in cooperation with the European Commission. The event brought together
the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the various national initiatives, which have been established
recently in some European countries to support research and technical development in the area of audio-visual content
processing, indexing and searching for the next generation Internet using semantic technologies, and which may lead to an
internet-based knowledge infrastructure. The objective of this workshop was to provide a platform for mutual information
and exchange between these initiatives, the European Commission and the participants. Top speakers were present from
each of the national initiatives. There was time for discussions with the audience and amongst the European National
Initiatives. The challenges, communalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impact, success criteria, etc. were tackled. This
workshop addressed how these national initiatives could work together and benefit from each other.
Workshop in Munich 11/21-22/2007
Numerous EU and national research projects are working on the automatic or semi-automatic generation of descriptive and
functional metadata derived from analysing audio-visual content. The owners of AV archives and production facilities are
eagerly awaiting such methods which would help them to better exploit their assets.Hand in hand with the digitization of
analogue archives and the archiving of digital AV material, metadatashould be generated on an as high semantic level as
possible, preferably fully automatically. All users of metadata rely on a certain metadata model. All AV/multimedia search
engines, developed or under current development, would have to respect some compatibility or compliance with the
metadata models in use. The purpose of this workshop is to draw attention to the specific problem of metadata models in the
context of (semi)-automatic multimedia search
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