Concurrent use in an image management system

Abstract

International audienceManual image annotation and keyword based image search is a difficultand hardly formalizable problem. Image processing tools extract and assignkeywords to the obtained images, but a manual annotation is almost alwaysessential. In this paper we present a model and a system which addresses this issue.It is an online image annotation and management system, which traces the actionsof the users and uses the capitalized experience to help them according to the casebased reasoning paradigm. The system provides basic online image galleryfeatures: uploading single or zipped images, describing images with keywords,importing xml based image descriptors, managing galleries … In addition thesystem helps image annotation tracing the actions of the user in order to proposeadditional keywords and images as well in the description as in the search phase.This help is provided by the capitalization and the reuse of user’s experience basedon the case based reasoning paradigm. After a short introduction, we describe ouruse trace model, the assistance strategies and present the developed prototype